Democrats are committed to curbing the effects of climate change, protecting America’s natural resources, and ensuring the quality of our air, water, and land for future generations. From investing in clean-energy to protecting our ecosystems, the Obama administration and Democrats are working to address our biggest environmental challenges, paving the way to a more sustainable America.
Here’s what Democrats and President Obama have done in the past few years:
- Under the Obama administration, the Department of Transportation and the EPA issued new fuel-economy standards, the first meaningful increases in fuel economy for cars and light trucks in decades.
- Increased use of solar energy twenty fold since President Obama took office, and tripled electricity produced by wind power.
- In June 2013, President Obama laid out a Climate Action Plan to reduce the harmful effects of climate change.
- President Obama instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to take steps to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants, which are the largest concentrated source of emissions in the United States. These proposed steps will reduce carbon pollution 30% from 2005 levels by 2030.
- And in November of 2014, the President announced a landmark agreement with China to work together to reduce carbon pollution in the next 15 years.
Learn more about their environmental views at the Democratic Party website.