Climate Change
WASHINGTON - Today on Earth Day, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), a Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Chair of the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Vice Chair of the Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law Subcommittee of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and Congressman Bobby L. Rush (IL-01), Chair of the Energy Subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, joined U.S.
WASHINGTON – Today Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Senior Chief Deputy Whip and Chair of the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee, Congressman Bobby Rush (D-IL), Chair of the Energy Subcommittee, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and a co-chair of the House United for Climate and Environmental Justice Task Force, and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and Senate Democrats' Special Committee on the Climate Crisis introduced the Children's Fundamental Rights and Climate Recover
Washington, D.C. – Rep. Schakowsky issued the following statement on the third United States National Climate Assessment, which was released this morning by the Obama Administration:
The third National Climate Assessment – the product of four years of work by the country’s leading scientists and technical experts – is the most comprehensive analysis yet of our changing climate and the risks it poses to human health and the environment. It is both informative and alarming.