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Archived (PDF) from the original on December 10, 2014 "Greenhouse Effect: DOE's Programs and Activities Relevant to the Global Warming Phenomenon" (PDF). U.S. GAO:Office of Public Affairs. U.S. Government Accountability Office. March 5, 1990. OCLC 21625409. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 8, 2014
Section 202(a)(1) of the Clean Air Act requires the Administrator of the EPA to establish standards "applicable to the emission of any air pollutant from…new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines, which in [her] judgment cause, or contribute to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare" (emphasis added). [3]
The climate change policy of the United States has major impacts on global climate change and global climate change mitigation.This is because the United States is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gasses in the world after China, and is among the countries with the highest greenhouse gas emissions per person in the world.
The ruling also impacted Biden's climate change plan, which relied on cleaner power sources. While it did immediately set back the U.S.'s efforts to reduce greenhouse gases as much as had been planned, the EPA is still able to mandate emission reduction technology on older plants, such as carbon capture and carbon sequestration , and converting ...
The greenhouse effect on Earth is defined as: "The infrared radiative effect of all infrared absorbing constituents in the atmosphere.Greenhouse gases (GHGs), clouds, and some aerosols absorb terrestrial radiation emitted by the Earth's surface and elsewhere in the atmosphere."
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a raft of new climate change risk disclosure requirements Wednesday morning in a 3–2 vote that is nearly certain to see a legal challenge.
In March 2001, the Bush administration announced that it would not implement the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty signed in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, that would require nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, claiming that ratifying the treaty would create economic setbacks in the U.S. and does not put enough pressure to limit emissions from developing nations.
Its mandate was to broadly "design and conduct" "national efforts to assess the consequences of climate variability and climate change for the United States." [ 16 ] NAST is an advisory committee chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act to help the US Global Change Research Program fulfill its legal mandate under the Global Change ...