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DiPERNA TESTIFIES IN HOUSE

U.S. Companies

Seeing Profit

In Climate Change

Editor’s Note: Paula DiPerna of Cooperstown, a special adviser with CDP-North America (formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project), which tracks companies’ environmental performance, testified Wednesday, Feb. 6, before the House Committee on Natural Resources.  Here is an excerpt, discussing opportunities for business among Climate Change’s challenges.

Paula DiPerna, herself a former Congressional candidate, confers with U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19th, after testifying before the House Committee on Natural Resources in Washington D.C

The withdrawal (from the Paris Agreement) has left the U.S. as the
only nation on earth to stand outside the circle of consensus that Climate Change must be addressed, not only because of the risks it poses, but the extraordinary
opportunities that addressing it represents as we redesign, retool, rebuild and refit almost all our critical infrastructure, generating jobs and helping the U.S. regain dominance of 21st century technological innovation and manufacturing.
For example, in Maryland,

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