Climate Change: The Obama Administration

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Conor Vaughan Senior Seminar Spring 2017

Thesis – The way in which recent change in presidential administrations will affect the legislation put in place by the Obama Administration and the potential impact that could be caused by an approach that is centered around ignoring the problem.

Introduction 1-2 Pages Introducing the ideas that will be set out in the paper specifically the ideas of “climate change” and more specifically the way that it effects the United States.
Introduce the legislation that was put in place by the government under the guidance of the Obama Administration. Consider the approach and where the support came from – Obama’s main fundraisers and Donors.
• (Obama Donors 2008) o https://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638
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What is the Rest of the world doing to combat these issues.
The theory behind these specific changes i.e. what exactly causes they temperature to be higher.

Main Body Two – Obama Administration policy. 3-4 Pages https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-record/climate Discuss the way in which the Obama administration handled the environment as a policy topic throughout his campaign and his decisions with regards to the people who he put in charge of that specific area – head of the EPA – Gina McCarthy and Lisa Jackson.

Discuss the specific policies put in place by the Obama i.e cutting carbon emissions, clean energy.

Main Body Three – The Trump administration. 2-3 Pages

Discuss the way that Donald trump has approached the idea of the environment in his first 4 weeks in office – Executive orders.
Discuss his appointments to his cabinet – mainly Rex Tillerson – Secretary of State – Head of Exxon Mobil; Rick Perry – Secretary of Energy and Sonny Perdue – Secretary of Agriculture. And Scott Pruitt – Head of the EPA. Discuss the way that their appointments may change the way that environmental policy would

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