User:Hpw27/sandbox

My group wants to edit the "Climate change policy of the United States" article. It has a lot of issues and is lacking any recent information, so we want to update it. In addition, there are some unnecessary and unorganized thoughts on the article, so we want to edit it. We also want to add a climate justice section to the article, because we feel this is a very relevant topic to current day and this article. We may try to get some feedback from the wiki community on whether to make a a climate justice page in general or just add to the intended article.

The section I will be working on for this project is editing the Federal Policy section and adding a "Donald Trump" section. The International policy and Obama section need some updating and balancing. the international policy section has some uncited statements that need to be fixed. At the end, the author cited a statement that says basically says climate change needs to be an elevated issue. Since there is no follow up, this could be the reason why the section has the "unbalanced" banner on top. I definitely want to add to this if I can and take out the unintentional bias.

"The United States, along with Kazakhstan, have not ratified the Kyoto Protocol.[citation needed] The protocol is non-binding over the United States unless ratified. Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and (as of January 2015) Barack Obama did not submit the treaty for ratification.[citation needed]

In October 2003, the Pentagon published a report titled An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall. The authors conclude by stating, "this report suggests that, because of the potentially dire consequences, the risk of abrupt climate change, although uncertain and quite possibly small, should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a U.S. national security concern.""

The Congress and Bush Administration parts don't seem to have any glaring issues, so I may leave those alone. I definelty will go through the talk page and see if anyone mentioned anything about adding or taking out pieces of those sections. Overall, I think they are pretty strong so I may leave them alone.

The Obama section of this piece also needs some work. There may be some more that can be added because I think some parts are left out. I think most of the work for this piece will come from reorganizing the section. There are multiple one of two sentence parts that seem random, so I may see what I can do with that.

The biggest part of the work for this whole section will be adding a Trump Administration section. Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump emphasized his lack of belief in climate change and his willingness to overhaul a lot of climate change policy made by President Obama. Now, as president, Trump has begun to move forward with some of those ideas. The climate change section from the White House website has been removed and can be found only by going to the archived Obama white house government website. In January, Trump caused controversy when he ordered the EPA to stop tweeting, leading to the formation of rouge twitters by National Park workers who began tweeting climate change and other environmental facts from these new sites. He has said that he wants to refocus our environmental efforts on clean water and air, and I will try to find more information about this to add to my section.

Potential Resources
 * 1) The Road not Taken: Climate Change Policy in Canada and the United States
 * 2) EPA Website on Climate Change
 * 3) The Basics of Climate Change Justice
 * 4) Trump and the Paris Agreement