Energy and Environment
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U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici is one of nine new Democrats on a revived House select committee on climate change.
Her appointment Thursday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the latest in a series of assignments that have resulted in the first subcommittee chairmanship for the Beaverton Democrat in her seven years in the 1st District congressional seat of northwest Oregon.
Democrats won a majority in the 2018 election, giving them control of the chamber — and as a Democrat in the House's majority party for the first time, Bonamici has gained new prominence.
Today the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee is holding the first meaningful hearing on climate change in years. The science is clear and the findings from the recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Fourth National Climate Assessment are more than a wakeup call; they are alarming.
Twelve years.
That's how long we have until the devastating effects of climate change become irreversible, according to the fourth National Climate Assessment released in November. It isn't a lot of time, especially when viewed through the lens of politics and bureaucracy. Especially when the political party that controls most of D.C. remains willfully ignorant to the threats climate change poses.
he prospect of a major seismic disaster occurring along the Oregon Coast is undeniable.
In an attempt to face the inevitable, U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, as one of his first official acts as Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, introduced and passed legislation in the House to create an early earthquake warning system for the coastline of the Northwestern United States.
Statewide leaders are lining up in support of an eco-centric economic stimulus proposal introduced at the U.S. Capitol — while some Portland politicos are pushing for a more-radical solution tailored to the tree-lined streets of Stumptown.
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici is one of nine new Democrats on a revived House select committee on climate change.
Her appointment Thursday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the latest in a series of assignments that have resulted in the first subcommittee chairmanship for the Beaverton Democrat in her seven years in the 1st District congressional seat of northwest Oregon.
Democrats won a majority in the 2018 election, giving them control of the chamber -- and as a Democrat in the House's majority party for the first time, Bonamici has gained new prominence.
Portland's representatives in Congress, Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, and Oregon's U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley—all Democrats—have all signed onto the Green New Deal, a resolution that outlines an ambitious approach for addressing climate change.
A pair of prominent Democrats on Thursday released a sweeping and long-awaited measure outlining what they are calling a "Green New Deal." Invoking President Franklin D. Roosevelt's years-long effort to drag the country out of the Great Depression, they are calling for nothing short of a top-to-bottom renovation of the U.S. economy in order to halt man-made climate change.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi built out the Democratic roster for her special select panel on climate change Thursday, pulling from a mix of old and new lawmakers but leaving off the highest profile freshmen like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
The announcement, on the same day that the proposal for the lofty Green New Deal lands on Capitol Hill and one day after the first climate change hearings in years, gives a further boost to Democratic efforts to bring the issue to the forefront of their agenda