Posted on Apr 12, 2016
Navy to require climate change reporting from vendors
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. — The U.S. Navy on Tuesday became the first branch of the U.S. military — the world's single-largest user of fossil fuels — to say it will start requiring big vendors to report their output of climate-changing greenhouse gases and work to lower it.
"We've got skin in this game," Navy Secretary Ray Mabus told a Silicon Valley conference on tech, government and climate change, noting that the Navy is facing rising ocean levels and a surge of interest as ice melts in the Arctic.
The U.S. military has characterized climate change as a threat to national security since at least 2014, saying drought and other natural disasters can foster instability, conflict and extremism.
The move seeks to leverage the Navy's $170 billion budget to encourage contractors to cut their overall output of climate-changing carbon.
The Navy is following the lead of the General Services Administration, which last year became the first federal agency to require its vendors to report carbon emission and set lower targets.
The U.S. military is also broadening its use of solar and other renewable energy, seeking to lessen its dependence on supply chains and on oil, a commodity vulnerable to global tensions.
The Navy is responsible for about one-third of the Pentagon's use of fossil fuel, Mabus said, speaking to the emissions-focused meeting of leaders of Google, Apple and other tech and financial firms.
He cited Navy moves toward cleaner energy, including solar-power-generating blankets that help Navy SEALs stay out in the field with less conventional fuel and greater use of renewable energy at Navy facilities.
"We've got skin in this game," Navy Secretary Ray Mabus told a Silicon Valley conference on tech, government and climate change, noting that the Navy is facing rising ocean levels and a surge of interest as ice melts in the Arctic.
The U.S. military has characterized climate change as a threat to national security since at least 2014, saying drought and other natural disasters can foster instability, conflict and extremism.
The move seeks to leverage the Navy's $170 billion budget to encourage contractors to cut their overall output of climate-changing carbon.
The Navy is following the lead of the General Services Administration, which last year became the first federal agency to require its vendors to report carbon emission and set lower targets.
The U.S. military is also broadening its use of solar and other renewable energy, seeking to lessen its dependence on supply chains and on oil, a commodity vulnerable to global tensions.
The Navy is responsible for about one-third of the Pentagon's use of fossil fuel, Mabus said, speaking to the emissions-focused meeting of leaders of Google, Apple and other tech and financial firms.
He cited Navy moves toward cleaner energy, including solar-power-generating blankets that help Navy SEALs stay out in the field with less conventional fuel and greater use of renewable energy at Navy facilities.
Navy to require climate change reporting from vendors
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That is bizarre but expected news fro the current government that the U.S. Navy on Tuesday became the first branch of the U.S. military — the world's single-largest user of fossil fuels — to say it will start requiring big vendors to report their output of climate-changing greenhouse gases and work to lower it SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL.
I expect the authors of that rule would be opposed to increasing the percentage of nuclear powered vessels which do not release significant greenhouse gases in production or use.
We know that this administration recently announced it is going after oil-based technology after it has done so much to undermine the coal industry and those who mine and work with coal have become pariahs to the Obama EPA folks and many in his administration.
I expect the authors of that rule would be opposed to increasing the percentage of nuclear powered vessels which do not release significant greenhouse gases in production or use.
We know that this administration recently announced it is going after oil-based technology after it has done so much to undermine the coal industry and those who mine and work with coal have become pariahs to the Obama EPA folks and many in his administration.
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@sfc Joe s SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL That means the Navy will soon convert to full nuclear?
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