WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell issued the following press release:
This week, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, urged her colleagues to take sea-level rise seriously in remarks on the Senate floor.
"[We] cannot bury our heads in the sand while climate change and sea level rise put billions of dollars of infrastructure and millions of Americans at risk," Sen. Cantwell said. "If we want to protect our economy and these communities, we need the data and the science to understand the problem. We need to take the necessary steps to protect our communities and our infrastructure and our economy."
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