WRITTEN BY EDITORIAL BOARD ON DEC 8, 2022. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
The Pentagon Marches Off To Climate War
bombing ukraineThe war in Ukraine is draining U.S. arms stockpiles while geopolitical risks grow. Yet the Biden Administration is worried about—you can’t make this up—the climate impact of U.S. weapons and wants to impose costly green mandates on federal contractors.
A little-noticed rulemaking proposed by the Department of Defense, NASA, and the General Services Administration last month would require federal contractors to disclose and reduce their CO2 emissions as well as climate financial risks. [emphasis, links added]
The rule would cover 5,766 contractors that have received at least $7.5 million from the feds in the prior year.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/the-pentagon-marches-off-to-climate-war/
