82 FR 10767
EPA announced the availability of the draft of the "Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2015" for public comment.
EPA announced the availability of the draft of the "Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2015" for public comment.
The president issued Executive Order No. 13754, Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience, in order to conserve Arctic biodiversity; support and engage Alaska Native tribes; incorporate traditional knowledge into decisionmaking; and build a sustainable Arctic economy that relies on the highest safety and environmental standards, including adherence to national climate goals, in the northern Bering Sea region.
EPA seeks public comment on a draft document titled, "Evaluating Urban Resilience to Climate Change: A Multi-Sector Approach," which was prepared by the National Center for Environmental Assessment, to help cities identify areas of resilience and vulnerability to climate change impacts.
EPA announced the availability of the document titled, “Stormwater Management in Response to Climate Change Impacts: Lessons From the Chesapeake Bay and Great Lakes Regions,” which addresses climate change in stormwater adaptation efforts.
USDA seeks public engagement on a special interagency report entitled the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report, which will focus on U.S. and North American carbon cycle processes, stocks, and flows in the context of and interactions with global scale budgets and climate change impacts in managed and unmanaged systems, including soils, water, vegetation, aquatic-terrestrial interfaces, human settlements, agriculture, and forestry.
CEQ issued instructions to federal agencies to incorporate sustainability practices into agency policies and practices, as required under Executive Order No. 13693, "Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade," which was signed by the president on March 19, 2015, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% over the next decade.
The president issued Executive Order No. 13693, Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade, outlining an extensive program to build a clean and sustainable energy economy and to reduce agency direct greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent over the next decade.
EPA proposed to add chemical-specific and default global warming potentials (GWPs) for a number of fluorinated greenhouse gases (GHGs) and fluorinated heat transfer fluids (HTFs) to the general provisions of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule in order to increase the completeness and accuracy of the carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions calculated and reported by suppliers and emitters of fluorinated GHGs and HTFs; EPA also proposed conforming changes to the provisions for the Electronics Manufacturing and Fluorinated Gas Production source categories.
EPA seeks public comment on an interagency draft report prospectus on the impacts of observed and projected climate change on human health in the United States.
EPA amended the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule to implement technical corrections, clarifying revisions, and other amendments, including confidentiality determinations for the reporting of new or substantially revised data elements contained in these final amendments to the rule.