Environmental Policy
The environmental policy of the United States addresses and regulates activities that impact the environment. Its general goal is to protect the environment for the welfare of future generations. The environmental policy goals are detailed below:
- The Environment: the United States is committed to protecting our country’s air, water, and land, from restoring ecosystems in the Chesapeake Bay and the Everglades, to reducing the impacts of mountaintop mining. Specifically, the environment will be protected by taking the following actions:
- Protecting our oceans
- Land conservation
- Restoring our ecosystems
- Renewing the federal commitment to California's Bay Delta
- Chesapeake Bay protection and restoration
- Great Lakes restoration
- Limiting mercury emissions
- Reducing the environmental impact of mountaintop coal mining
- Reinvigorate the National Environmental Policy Act
- Climate Change: the United States is committed to leading the charge to reduce the dangerous pollution that causes global warming, and to make the investments in the clean energy technology that will power sustainable growth in the future. The following are actions that will be taken to accomplish climate change goals:
- Providing international leadership
- Monitoring greenhouse gas emissions
- Improving the educational curriculum for climate change science
- Developing climate change adaptations
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