The Situation As It Stands

Over the next few post's we will be looking at the environmental policy in the USA as it currently stands and to do this we will need to look to this guy...

A Young Barack Obama
Source: Arogundade

Barack is the 44th president of the United States of America and as was most notable about his election, he was the first African-American to hold office. To firstly assess Obama's attitude to the environment, we will be taking a quick look the White House homepage more specifically the climate change section. This will help first establish the message The White House are putting out about climate change and we will delve into some of the finer details through the assessment of official reports from the Environmental Protection Agency on the issue.

The webpage is divided into five key sections. The first explaining why action is necessary, for example rising temperatures, increases in extreme weather conditions and increased spending on damage as a result. The second is about carbon pollution specifically, and starts with the heading "We're still contributing to the problem.." (I feel like the website would do well here to mention how much they're still contributing to the problem, but oh well!) and includes some nice graphs about CO2 concentrations rising. The next three sections will be be discussed as the feature of the next three blog posts, as they are
-Barack's plan to cut carbon concentrations
-Barack's plan for the impacts of climate change
and finally
-Barack's International Plan

So enjoy as we step forward into the master plan of Obama and away from the climate change oppression movement from Bush.

A quick quote of the day from Obama:

"Someday, our children, and our children's children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem and leave them in a cleaner, safe, more stable world?" Barack Obama, 2013