Senate Panel to Examine Climate Change Concerns
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The committee in the U.S. Senate with jurisdiction over the country’s highway policy is scheduled to hear from stakeholders about efforts to respond to climate change concerns.
The Environment and Public Works Committee on March 10 will examine the link between climate change and the electricity sector.
Appearing before the committee will be Frank Rusco with the Government Accountability Office, Sandra Snyder with the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Recent failures of Texas’ energy grid, and myriad severe weather events around the country are prompting certain policymakers to consider proposing climate change-centric provisions during the debate of either an infrastructure funding bill or the next highway policy bill. The country’s current major highway law expires in September.
“Across Texas, families are struggling to recover from a catastrophic ice storm, with over 8 million people still without safe drinking water, the latest tragedy in the increasingly frequent extreme weather and climate events in recent years,” Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), the panel’s chairman, said last month.
“This comes on the heels of last year’s raging wildfires in California and Colorado the size of my state [and]Hurricane-force winds in Iowa that flattened a third of that state’s crops.”
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