Jim Rine, Climate Crisis and Militarism Project, Veterans for Peace

After serving in the U.S. Army in West Germany (1969-1973), Jim Rine earned is Ph. D. at U of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. For over three decades, Jim researched and published on topics in marine and environmental geology, and potential interactions of the U.S. petroleum industry to climate change. In 2019, he helped form the Veterans for Peace Climate Crisis and Militarism Project – https://www.veteransforpeace.org/take-action/climatecrisis. During the 117^th Congress, CCMP helped draft with Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA-13) H. Res. 767, which calls on the Department of Defense to report and to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. More recently, Jim has participated in protests in Washington, D.C., New York, NY, and Lansing, MI – https://www.veteransforpeace.org/take-action/climatecrisis/stopwarsaveclimate . Rine is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Geology at Wayne State University in Detroit.