WASHINGTON, March 8 -- The Senate Budget Committee issued the following testimony by Jessica Weinkle, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington involving a hearing on March 1, 2023, entitled "Rising Seas, Rising Costs: Climate Change and the Economic Risks to Coastal Communities": * * * My testimony focuses societal factors as key drivers of climate and weather related economic loss in coastal communities. Climate change is real, and it is important. Practical polic  more