[CPEO-MEF] CLIMATE: House votes to block DOD assessment of climate change

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

House Directs Pentagon To Ignore Climate Change

Kate Sheppard
Huffington Post
May 23, 2014

WASHINGTON -- The House passed an amendment to the National Defense  
Authorization bill on Thursday that would bar the Department of  
Defense from using funds to assess climate change and its  
implications for national security.

The amendment, from Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.), passed in what was  
nearly a party-line vote. Four Democrats voted for the amendment, and  
three Republicans voted against it. The bill aims to block the DOD  
from taking any significant action related to climate change or its  
potential consequences. It reads:

"None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made  
available by this Act may be used to implement the U.S. Global Change  
Research Program National Climate Assessment, the Intergovernmental  
Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report, the United  
Nation's Agenda 21 sustainable development plan, or the May 2013  
Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact  
Analysis Under Executive Order 12866."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/23/pentagon-climate- 
change_n_5382067.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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