June 13, 2019
Stories tagged "national security"
June 9, 2019
Offshore Wind: Huge Potential And Open Questions
Last week a panel of experts speaking to the Capitol Hill Oceans Week Conference discussed the state of offshore wind development in the U.S. — describing the huge commercial potential and the difficult issues that are still being confronted in the...April 18, 2019
Is This the Beginning of the Green New Deal Era? The Climate Security Era? Or Both?
The debate around climate change is increasingly falling into two lines of argument — one around the Green New Deal and the economy and another around climate change as an existential threat to our national security. Senator Ed Markey argued in a Boston Globe...April 10, 2019
Republicans Take Aim at GND In Hearing On Climate Change Threat
The House Committee on Government Oversight held the first in a series of hearings on climate change, with former Democratic Secretary of State John Kerry and Republican former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel both testifying that climate change presents “threat...March 29, 2019
Senator Tammy Duckworth on Climate Change and National Security
Last week, Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) became one of 10 members of the newly formed Senate Democrat Special Committee on the Climate Crisis. As a former Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army and a Purple Heart recipient, Senator Duckworth brings an important...February 21, 2019
White House To Form Committee To Deny Climate National Security Risk
Three weeks ago, and for the second year in a row, the Director of National Intelligence, former Republican Senator Dan Coats, testified to Congress that environmental degradation and climate change are global threats to U.S. national security stating that they are,...January 10, 2019