Interior Department launches all out war on climate change.
The government has announced a multi-front battle to attack bark beetles and almost everything else in its newly launched war against climate change.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced the assault Monday from his agency’s war room and called it the “first-ever coordinated strategy to address current and future impacts of climate change on America’s land, water, ocean, fish, wildlife, and cultural resources.”
The agency boss said that Americans are experiencing first-hand the impacts of climate change, from growing pressure on water supplies to more intense droughts and fires to rampant bark beetle infestations.
His justification for heading up the war is that his department manages one-fifth of our nation’s landmass and 1.7 billion acres on the Outer Continental Shelf.
In the order he signed yesterday, Salazar created a new Climate Change Response Council which will coordinate Interior’s response to the impacts of climate change within and among the Interior bureaus.
He also announced the formation of eight DOI regional Climate Change Response Centers which will help regional managers coordinate action on the ground and carefully examine regional concerns.
With over 67,000 employees and 280,000 volunteers located at approximately 2,400 sites, Salazar has a good sized army to throw into the battle.
The agency says it supplies drinking water to more than 31 million people and irrigation water to 140,000 farmers, manages wildlife from the Arctic to the Everglades, is responsible for over 500 tribal nations.
If you want more details on Salazar’s battle plan, here’s is a link to the order he just signed.
And, for more info on what Interior does, here’s another link.
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