Peter DeFazio: “This has got to stop. It has to stop. And this hearing has to be the beginning of that change at last.”

The Coast Guard does not have the privilege of ignoring the significant and consequential impacts that climate change is having on our environment.

Senator Tammy Baldwin introduced legislation last Congress that all rail labor unions and shipper groups from a wide array of industries, including the American Chemistry Council (ACC) endorsed.

I think there is going to be a lot of work coming.

We have to provide resources to the Coast Guard so they can mitigate the effects of climate change in their operational planning.