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Yvette Clarke: Today's hearing is about recognizing that climate change is not only an environmental threat, but it is a threat to…

On the recordApril 8, 2019
Today's hearing is about recognizing that climate change is not only an environmental threat, but it is a threat to homeland security.
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Yvette Clarke
Democratic · New York

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Links climate change to homeland security concerns.

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