Media Advisory: SEEC & Senate Environmental Groups to Host Event on Climate Threats

Washington, D.C. – Tomorrow evening, the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC) and Senate Climate Action Task Force will host a panel discussion on the threat climate change poses to our health, security, and economy. To further inform the conversation, attendees will watch an episode from Showtime’s climate change documentary series “Years of Living Dangerously” examining the health and security implications associated with climate change. A Q&A session with the panel will take place after the screening.

The panelists taking part in the event are:

• Dr. Thomas Armstrong, Executive Director of the US Global Change Research Program
• Sharon Burke, Senior Advisor at the New America Foundation
• Anne Kelly, Director of Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy and Director of Public Policy at Ceres
• Dr. Sabrina McCormick, Associate Professor at the Milken Institute of Public Health at George Washington University and Years of Living Dangerously Producer

SEEC is co-chaired by Reps. Gerry Connolly, Paul Tonko, and Steve Israel. The Senate Climate Action Task Force is co-chaired by Sens. Barbara Boxer and Sheldon Whitehouse. Other Members participating in the event include Sen. Edward Markey.

EVENT: Panel Discussion on Climate Threats

WHEN: Tuesday, May 20, 2014

6:00 p.m. – Panel discussion with introductions by Reps. Connolly and Tonko, and Senators Boxer, Whitehouse and Markey

6:30 p.m. – Film screening

7:30 p.m. – Q&A with panelists

WHERE: Congressional Visitors Center, Orientation Theater South

U.S. Capitol

Washington, DC