Energy and Environment
Information regarding my stance on Energy and Environment issues.
Climate parlance like ‘2C threshold' and ‘anthropogenic emissions' hardly stir emotions. But the consequences of these phenomena can easily overwhelm them: One hundred million people projected to lose their lives in the next 11 years due to climate change.
Representative Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) spoke about the release of the Fourth National Climate Assessment by the Trump administration. She spoke via video link from the Capitol.
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore), Ranking Member of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee's Environment Subcommittee, called for comprehensive action to reduce carbon emissions and for stronger investments in clean energy following the release of the second volume of the Fourth National Climate Assessment by the U.S. Global Change Research Program.
This has been the deadliest wildfire season in California's history, with hundreds of people still missing.
We don't usually have to think of wildfire danger this time of year - but should we?
And what needs to be done to prevent or reduce catastrophic wildfires like the ones we've seen in California?
Oregon Democratic Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici talks about the California wildfires, preventing catastrophic wildfires in the future, climate change, how a Democratically controlled house will provide oversight on the Trump Administration, and the Democrats top priorities for 2019.
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Still, Bonamici said Thursday (Oct. 25) at a Westside Economic Alliance forum, "Our side of the aisle is taking steps that if we are in the majority, we will respect minority rights."
During the past eight years, she said, Republican majorities have rammed through key bills — such as the 2017 tax-code overhaul, which cost $1.5 trillion over 10 years — without consideration for the Democratic minority.