In 2020 Climate became a serious national election issue. On Tuesday, Oct. 20, House Democrats on the Natural Resources Committee introduced an “Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act,” the first bill ever aimed at using ocean and coastal resources to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while helping coastal communities equitably adapt to climate change impacts.  

It’s an overdue corrective not only to 50 years of inadequate U.S. climate policy, but also to the Green New Deal framework of 2019, which proposed a full blown progressive agenda for a clean energy revolution, but failed to address our ocean. 

Read David Helvarg and Jason Scorse’s article in The Hill article here.