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Government ‘not well-positioned’ to handle climate change risks
By Summit Voice
SUMMIT COUNTY — Slowly but inexorably, the very guts of the U.S. government are acknowledging the risks of climate change, most recently demonstrated when the Government Accountability Office said the federal government must do a better job managing climate risk to limit the government’s fiscal exposure.
The changes to GAO’s High Risk List were part of the agency’s biennial update to its list of federal programs and operations at “high risk” for waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement or needing broad-based transformation. (more…)
Filed under: climate and weather, global warming | Tagged: climate change, Environment, extreme weather, Federal government of the United States, global warming, Government Accountability Office | 7 Comments »
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