U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell spoke on the Senate floor about the threat ocean acidification poses to Washington state’s jobs and economy. Below is an excerpt from her speech.
You can watch the entire speech in the embedded video below.
Commercial fishing is also important to the nation – it contributes $70 billion to the U.S. economy and supports over one million fishing jobs. So our inaction here in Congress deciding not to do something basically threatens those one million jobs.