More than a year after the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity was launched, it has yet to receive any funding, despite worsening climate disasters.
last week would deliver the full $3 million. So would the spending bill that the Senate Appropriations Committee unveiled on Thursday.However, the government spending bills that lawmakers released last year also included $3 million for the climate office — until that money was stripped from the legislation at the last minute as part of an agreement brokered behind the scenes. That has fostered apprehension among officials in the climate office.
Sen. Richard C. Shelby , the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, accused Democrats on Thursday of using the spending bills to pursue the , citing proposals to subsidize the solar industry and curb emissions of methane, a potent planet-warming gas, from livestock.Sign up for The Climate 202, a daily newsletter about climate policy and politics
John Balbus, interim director of the climate office, lamented that there is a debate over funding his work in the first place.“It shouldn’t be controversial to set up an office to make sure our communities and health systems are ready to face extreme weather threats being made more frequent and common by climate change,” Balbus said. “The 200 leading health journals in the world have made it clear that climate change is the greatest threat to public health of this century.
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