Coast Guard Foundation Presents Guardian Award to ExxonMobil
The Coast Guard Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to the education and welfare of all Coast Guard members and their families, announced that its 2016 Guardian Award has been presented to ExxonMobil. The Coast Guard Foundation’s Guardian Award recognizes individuals, companies andorganizations thathave provided significant support or have demonstrated exemplary commitment to the Coast Guard Foundation, U.S. Coast Guard personnel and families, or to other service members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families.Given just once a year, the Coast Guard Foundation Guardian Award is the Foundation’s premier national recognition.
Obama: Climate Change Poses Risk to National Security
Rising seas, thawing permafrost and longer wildfires caused by warmer global temperatures threaten U.S. military bases and will change the way the U.S. armed services defend the country, President Barack Obama is set to say on Wednesday. In his commencement address at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, the White House said Obama will underscore the risks to national security posed by climate change, one of his top priorities for action in his remaining 19 months in office. "You are part of the first generation of officers to begin your service in a world where the effects of climate change are so clearly upon us…