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Oregon Rep Bonamici Talks Combating Climate Change Under Republican Rule

February 12, 2019

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.

"That was an alarm," Rep Suzanne Bonamici, who represents Oregon's Washington County in the US House of Representatives, said about the assessment. "It was more than a wake-up call."