Environment

Some environmental groups criticized the plan for lacking ambition and not directly targeting fossil fuel production.

This peer-reviewed study of air pollution impacts on older Americans suggests that current air qualitystandards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) do not protect public health, and that strengthening the standards could save over 140,000 American lives over a decade.

“We have a mountain of evidence of what they knew and what they did to deceive the public about the threat of climate change. And yet we’ve only scratched the surface.”

Experts warn that continued world population growth will make things worse.

"Opening more of the Arctic to drilling and fracking is incredibly reckless."

Cash payments from the government could help ease the transition to a climate-safe economy and weather the natural and economic storms to come.

“Who pays? The damaged environment? The communities that are blighted by unreclaimed mine sites?”

“Exxon chose profit over people. It’s time they’re held accountable.”

Given the evidence, it is clear humans need to balance the production of food, forest commodities and other goods with the protection of tropical forests.

“The Arctic is believed to be warming twice as fast as the global average.”