Activists Plan New Coalition to Recast Climate Bill as Security Priority

By Suzanne Yohannan / July 22, 2009 at 5:00 AM
Defense Environment Alert -- Defense policy experts at progressive think thanks are creating a broad coalition of national-security and veterans groups as part of their effort to broaden support for a House-passed cap-and-trade climate change bill and expand political backing for the legislation within Congress. The attempt to reframe the bill as something that will benefit the Defense Department and troops fighting in the Middle East comes as Senate Democrats are also focusing on potential security benefits from climate change...

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