The Council on Environmental Quality in the White House issued the long-delayed plan for treating greenhouse-gas emissions today. It won’t exempt any individual project on the ground it won’t change overall trends of climate change.
“Diverse individual sources of emissions each make relatively small additions to global atmospheric GHG concentrations that collectively have huge impact,” according to the council’s guidance.
Following midterm elections that cost Democrats control of the Senate, President Barack Obama issued orders to protect the environmental that have drawn fire from Republicans. Obama reached a landmark deal with China to control greenhouse-gas emissions, and his Environmental Protection Agency proposed far-reaching rules for cutting down on smog. The EPA is set to issue long-delayed rules for the handling of coal ash tomorrow.
The guidance issued today would apply in required environmental reviews that federal departments and agencies conduct before they make decisions, such as approving a pipeline or rejecting a land-use plan. The guidelines may cover highway construction, government grants, coal sales from federal lands, or timber leasing.
Read more at Obama Sets Guidelines for Climate Review in Agency Decisions
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