Congress Splits Along Party Lines in Reaction To Warnings in National Climate Assessment

摘要

Members of Congress split along party lines May 6 in reacting to the release of a broad U.S. assessment of how climate change is impacting U.S. regions. Republicans decried the report as a political document designed to bolster President Obama's regulatory agenda while imposing costly mandates on the energy industry. Democrats, however, said the report provided irrefutable evidence that the effects of climate change were already being felt coast-to-coast and confirmed the need for immediate, urgent action to address those impacts.