User:Hmthorner

Sources for Energy Policy/ Clean Power Plan under Trump:

• Wiki Articles:
  • Energy policy of the United States general background
  • Clean Power Plan Obama era regulation under Clean Air Act (United States)
  • Green politics direct link from environmental justice wiki page
  • Presidential Climate Action Plan underdeveloped page we can edit as Trump acts on it
  • Energy policy of the Barack Obama administration model our page off this one potentially - Energy Policy under Trump

• Environmental Justice Issues:
• **(National) Energy Policy: Access to clean energy/ green tech, power/ being heads of major energy industries, fence-line communities allowed exposure regulations disproportionately affect, cap and trade, [check if people doing EPA under Trump]
• Business/ Jobs/ Company sustainability (choose specific place): hiring disparities?, companies going green less likely to be in minority neighborhoods, SF vs. Oakland for example green tech vs. warehouse maybe
• International: refugees
• Timeliness:
  • ref. Presidential Climate Action Plan page: On the first day of the presidency of Donald Trump, the White House website announced that The Climate Action Plan would be eliminated, stating it is 'harmful and unnecessary' citation: https://www.whitehouse.gov/america-first-energy
  • Trump's stance on "America First" US steel for DAPL, reviving US coal industry promise during campaign; industry jobs vs. green jobs; see how his opinions play out in policy
  • connection to EJ: Less air pollution overall decreases people's exposure, especially those who live near plants. More people of color and lower income people live near plants. Also potentially the people employed by the plants. If regulations put in place may make communities healthier but people may loose jobs.
  • Under Trump potentially fewer restrictions on emissions (speculative)
• Stakeholders:
  • policy makers local and federal, EPA representatives, owners of power plants, workers at power plants (concerns over lost jobs?), cabinet people
  • Contacted Christine Rosen - Business Environmentalism and Sustainability
  • 1) EU regulations -  like the REACH, WEEE, RoHS initiatives and the Kyoto accords that have forced global U.S. firms (as well as all other firms) that do business in Europe to meet much tougher regulations than any that exist in the U.S. , forcing them to go beyond compliance with U.S.pollution and other environmental regs.
  • 2) **Voluntary environmental programs and standards that provide U.S. firms with ways to obtain third party certifications for green products, management practices, and manufacturing processes that enable them to market their products and/or themselves as more sustainable than their rivals.   The US EPA has rolled out a number of these programs  over the past 15-20 years.   There are also a growing number of green label certification programs that firms can use to brand their products as green  stakeholders = different companies those that work towards sustainability and those who don't
  • 3)  Progressive state level environmental policies and regulatory programs - like CA's climate change policies 

Sources for International Policy and Environment Topic:

Paris Agreement: A recent international agreement focusing on environment and climate change. Trump has expressed disagreement with the agreement. Potentially focusing our article on what countries didn't participate in the agreement, such as OPEC nations.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Organization that organized Paris agreement. Trump has expressed disagreement with the UN.

Green job: underdeveloped page