Climate Change

UNITED STATES - MAY 13: Lisa Murkowski, R-AK., during the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, full committee hearing on the impacts of climate change on the reliability, security, economics, and design of critical energy infrastructure in coastal regions. Witnesses: Virginia Burkett, chief scientist of the global change programs at the U.S. Geological Survey; Thomas Wilbanks, corporate research fellow and leader of the Energy Department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Ted Falgout, executive director of Port Fourchon, Galliano, La.; Lisa Edgar, commissioner of the Florida Public Service Commission; Charles Drevna, president of the National Petrochemical & Refiners Assn.; and Terry Wallace, principal associate director for science, technology and engineering at the Energy Department's Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M. (Photo By Douglas Graham/Roll Call/Getty Images)