Taxpayers Billed Nearly $100 Billion for Extreme Weather in 2012

National Resources Defense Council By Dan Lashof With all the debate on the federal budget in Congress, climate change rarely gets mentioned as a deficit driver. Yet dealing with climate disruption was one of the largest non-defense discretionary budget items in 2012. Indeed, as the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) shows in Who Pays for …Read the Rest

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