The US

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The US

By: Samuel Desai


According to the EPI, the US is the 26th most green country. Even though we have taken steps to reduce our carbon foot print they are not enough.

The EPA

The EPA is a Governemental Orginization, founded in 1970, which regulates the environment, collects emmission data, partners internaionally, and helps people be more Green.

The Plans

The EPA has partenered with many different presidents to create environmental laws, the most famous being Obama's Clean Power Plan.

Clean Plan

This plan has been hailed as the best environmental action by a president yet. The plan enforces a 32% emission decrease from power plants from the 2005 data. States will have to comply by 2022, but this shouldn't be a problem because there has already been more than a 15% decrease.

US President Barack Obama at a solar power kiosk at the Power Africa Innovation Fair in Nairobi, Kenya, during his visit last week.
Obama helping out in the Community

Other things...

As far as I'm sure, the government has not done much other than this but to raise awareness. There are many agencies which help with the environment (E.G World Wildlife Fund). And people do donate to them.You can consider all of the Green Programs at school's and Green Blog's (including our's) to be helping the environment. In fact, our blog has raised awareness.


I have been working frantically on the GED code, so I haven't had time to work on the post. Sorry for being late!
The EPA

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