National Public Lands Day Tarihi

​October 10, 2017

​EPA sought Obama-era regulation repeal

​The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed abolishing the Clean Power Plan citing the regulation goes above and beyond the agency’s statutory authority.

May 27, 2015

​Clean Water Protection Rule

​The Waters of the U.S Rule is an environmental protection of streams and wetlands that ensures those areas are precisely and accurately defined.

June 25, 2013

Presidential climate change strategy

​President Obama issued a climate change strategy that prepares agencies for negative climate effects by cutting carbon pollution in the U.S.

​October 5, 2010

​First national greenhouse gas fuel standards

​With a goal of reducing greenhouse gases by 250 million metric tons, the nation issued the first greenhouse gas fuel efficiency standards for trucks and buses.

​2007

​BP paid $62 million criminal fine

​BP was hit with one of the largest criminal fines for an environmental violation associated with the 2005 refinery explosion that killed 15 people.