Members from The Outdoor Industry Association, Outdoor Recreation Roundtable Accompany
{Dover, NH—March 20, 2023}— This morning, Theresa McKenney, Director of Sustainability and Government Affairs for Dover, NH-based NEMO Equipment, testified in front of the Senate Budget Committee in a hearing titled “Recreation at Risk: The Nature of Climate Costs”. McKenney was accompanied by members from the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) and Outdoor Recreation Roundtable (ORR), and other outdoor industry businesspeople and athletes.
Chairman Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget have held 13 previous hearings on the economic toll of climate change. The Committee has examined a range of climate-caused budgetary effects, including inflation, disruption in insurance markets, infrastructure damage and threats to ocean industries. Today’s hearing focuses on the impacts to the $1.1 trillion outdoor industry.
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