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Our national security organizations are taking climate change seriously and congress needs to do the same:

The DOD has put climate change into their quadrennial defense review which was released this week.
The CIA has created a center on climate change.
The Marines are committed to reducing their carbon pollution by 30 percent by 2025
The Navy is committed to reducing their carbon pollution by 50 percent by 2020 of homeland bases.
The Navy is also going to sail a green battle group in 2020, using alternative fuels.
The Navy is also testing a F18 that runs on biofuel.
The Marines have a FOB or forward operating base training facility that is net zero.
Many bases have implemented smart grid technology and renewable energy sources.
The Pentagon (building) was weatherized and rehabbed to become LEED certified and their energy bill went down from 2.9 million to 2.2 million a month.

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• Operatio Free
• Jon Powers
• Rep. Alex Cornell du Houx
• Roger Koopman
• Congressman Steve Israel
• Hon. Ray Maybus
• Congressman John Boccieri
• Lakisha Watson Moore
• clean energy
• national security