Since President Barack Obama is in office, it seems that environmental policy became an important value in the U.S.-politics. After his election in 2008 — he promised “change” in his campaign — many things truly changed.
Since President Georg W. Bush did not care too much for the environmental policy, his successors in office have a lot of work to do. For instance, Obama has to reduce the CO2-emissions and to support renewable energy projects like solar energy electric power stations to keep up with the rest of the world. However, most of the time, President Obama had to deal with threatening and tough topics as unemployment, health insurance and worldwide terrorism—in his first term as well as in his second one.
This term paper deals with Obama's second term and analyses the steps taken in the environmental politics since his re-election. As an introduction, we will have a closer look at the problems in the U.S.-politics since 2012
Contents
1. Preface: Do big problems like terrorism detract from environmental policy?
1.1 Are US-citizens actually interested in green policy?
1.2 Overview of Obama’s self-concept and fulfilled aims in his first term
2. Structures of the environmental policy in the USA
2.1 Different official institutions, their competences and resulting collisions
2.2 Overview of varieties of environmental policies
3. Selected examples for Obama’s environmental policy in his 2nd term
3.1 Initiatives in the energy and climate policy
3.2 Initiatives to protect landscape
3.3 Initiatives to protect animals
3.4 Healthcare-initiatives
3.5 Science and distribution of information
3.6 Problems and challenges
4. Conclusion: Obama is going green. Will the U.S. follow?
4.1 No, the U.S. will not follow, if…
4.2 Yes, the U.S. will follow, if…
5. Appendix
5.1 Figures
5.3 Sources
5.3.1 Literature and printed sources
5.3.2 Internet sources
5.3.3 Pictures and statistics p. 30
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