House Armed Services Dems demand Pentagon offer more complete climate change report
By Ellen Mitchell - 01/30/19 05:02 PM EST
The head of the House Armed Services Committee is urging acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan to revise a study on climate change and its impacts on national security that lawmakers say was incomplete.
Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.), along with fellow committee members Jim Langevin (D-R.I.), and John Garamendi (D-Calif.), on Monday sent a letter to Shanahan requesting that he revise the congressionally mandated report, which they said failed to meet basic requirements laid out in the fiscal 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
“The final report submitted to Congress lacks key deliverables mandated ... and is at odds with the plain language of the NDAA,†the lawmakers write.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/427739-house-armed-services-dems-demand-pentagon-offer-more-complete-climate-change
