WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation authorizing programs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that would strengthen weather research and forecasting to save lives and better prepare our nation against dangerous weather disasters.
"After enduring floods, landslides, power outages, and road closures from December's atmospheric rivers - and facing increasingly destructive wildfires and smoke impacts - Washingtonians know all too well that weather is getting more extreme," said ...