Climate Change

UNITED STATES - MAY 13: 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)