Richard Kidd Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment & Energy Resilience at the Department of Defense
The Pentagon has released its most ambitious blueprint to date for how the Department of Defense—the largest government agency in the United States and the...
US: More threats, more desperate refugees as climate warms
The Earth’s warming and resulting natural disasters are creating a more dangerous world of desperate leaders and peoples, the Biden administration said Thursday in the...
White House, intelligence agencies, Pentagon issue reports warning that climate change threatens global security
As the United States and nations around the world struggle to blunt the effects of rising temperatures and extreme weather, sweeping assessments released Thursday by...
‘Climate change is going to cost us’: How the US military is preparing for harsher environments
The aftermath of Hurricane Florence dumping 36 inches of rain on North Carolina in 2018 saw three Marine Corps installations flooded, costing taxpayers $3.6 billion...
House grills FERC about commission’s regulatory authority on cybersecurity, pipeline climate impacts
Cybersecurity, transmission reform and the future of pipeline deliberations came under scrutiny Tuesday during a House hearing focused on federal energy regulatory authorities.
Feature Article: S&T Leading the Way in Adapting to Climate Change and Building Community Resilience
According to the United States Global Change Research Program, more frequent and intense extreme weather, and climate-related events, as well as changes in average climate conditions,...
DoD will soon release climate change strategy that will impact almost every facet of the military
The Defense Department says it will have a plan to make climate change a main factor in the further strategy of the military’s operations, risk...
NATO tackling climate change for first time
NATO said for the first time Monday that it will address the issue of climate change by factoring in environmental concerns as part of the...