Energy Sec. Granholm: ‘We Don’t Know Fully’ If Climate Change Contributed to the Collapse of the Fl. Building

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GRANHOLM: "Well, obviously we don’t know fully, but we do know that the seas are rising. We know that we’re losing inches and inches of beaches, not just in Florida but all around. You know, Lake Michigan, where I’m from, you know, we’ve seen the loss of beaches because the waters are rising. So, you know, this is a phenomenon that will continue. We’ll have to wait to see what the analysis is for this building, but the issue about resiliency and making sure that we adapt to this changing climate, that's gonna mean levees need to be built, that means sea walls need to be built, that means infrastructure needs to be built. We need to make sure that we invest enough in clearing out the forest so we don’t have these weather events. We need to invest in hardening our transmission lines, maybe burying wires so that we can protect areas that are like tinderbox dry. There’s so much investment that we need to do to protect ourselves from climate change, but also to address it and mitigate it, and hopefully these infrastructure bills, when taken together, will make a huge step and allow America to lead again."