Gabbard pressed on omission of climate change from threat report

Sen. Angus King hits intelligence report for deleting climate change threat

The 2025 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community made no mention of climate change as a security threat for the first time in 11 years, according to Sen. Angus King. Much of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing last Tuesday was taken up by questions about the use of a private, encrypted messaging app by leaders of the U.S. intelligence community to discuss the details of an upcoming attack on Yemen. The Signal chat inclu…

Angus King fumes after Trump administration cuts climate change from threat assessment

Maine has been described as a “climate haven,” a place expected to remain relatively sheltered from the most extreme and dangerous impacts of global climate change. But the Pine Tree State is far from immune. Fossil fuel-driven climate change is intensifying heat waves, flooding and other extreme weather events. Waters in the Gulf of Maine are warming faster than nearly every other swath of ocean on the planet, threatening the future of the stat…

Sen. Angus King fumes at removal of climate change from US threat assessment

At a Senate hearing last week, King used part of his allotted time to interrogate Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard about the sudden change.

Sen. King fumes at climate change being nixed from annual threat assessment

For more than a decade, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence included the mounting impacts of climate change in its annual reports.

Climate change nixed from annual U.S. threat assessment

Editor’s Note: The following first appeared in The Maine Monitor’s free environmental newsletter, Climate Monitor, that is delivered to inboxes every Friday morning. Sign up for the free newsletter to stay informed of Maine environmental news. Maine has been described as a “climate haven,” a place expected to remain relatively sheltered from the most extreme and dangerous impacts of global climate change. But the Pine Tree State is far from immu…

US’s new ‘America First’ intelligence approach downplays Russia and ignores climate change

The recently appointed US director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and other top intelligence officials appeared before the Senate intelligence committee to discuss the US intelligence services’ annual threat assessment (ATA). Most of the committee’s time and attention was focused on the revelation by the editor of the Atlantic magazine that he had been inadvertently added to an insecure chat group, in which top security officials discu…