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DHS to address climate change as homeland security issue – Homeland Security Newswire

At an all-day White House conference on environmental justice, DHS secretary Janet Napolitano announced that her department is creating a new task force to battle the effects of climate change on domestic security operations.

Speaking at the first White House Forum on Environmental Justice on Thursday, Napolitano discussed the initial findings of the department’s recently created Climate Change and Adaptation Task Force.