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This article focuses on information specific to United States. Please see our Climate action page for a topic overview.

There is an international interest in issues surrounding changes in climate in the United States and that nation's relationship to general global warming due to the high level of American greenhouse gas emissions per capita. ^W

Campaigns

Campus Climate Challenge

Mothers Out Front

Resources

• The Climate Registry, a nonprofit collaboration between North American states, provinces, territories, and Native Sovereign Nations to record and track the greenhouse gas emissions of businesses, municipalities and other organisations. ^W
• Learning from EPA’s Climate Showcase Communities US EPA

Citizens data initiative

Fossil Free Funds - NOAA Climate.gov

Infographics

What’s in Obama’s Climate Plan? TckTckTck

Research

The Solutions Project, an organization first conceived in 2011 by prominent figures in science, business and the entertainment media with the goal of utilizing the combined efforts of individuals in the fields of science, business and culture to accelerate the transition to 100 percent renewable energy use in the United States. Based on the results of academic research, the organization maintains that America is capable of meeting its entire energy needs through renewal energy sources, and that this goal can be achieved by the year 2050.

The organization has proposed what it calls the "50 States 50 Plans" initiative. These are plans developed for each of the 50 United States specifying the precise mix of renewable energy types that, given factors such as geography and climate, would allow that particular state to receive all of its energy from renewable sources by 2050. The organization claims that, beyond the issue of environmental sustainability, a number of significant benefits to society would come about if the initiative were adopted, including consumer energy cost savings, health cost savings and millions of long-term (40 years or more) jobs. ^W

Video

News and comment

2015

There’s Now A Way To Find Out How Much Of Your Retirement Is Invested In Fossil Fuels, September 17 ^[1]

2014

Youths sue U.S. government over climate inaction, May 5 ^[2]

Obama Turns to Web to Illustrate the Effects of a Changing Climate, March 19 ^[3]

See also

• Climate action
• local information can be found, or shared, via our many USA location pages

• Sustainable transport USA

Interwiki links

Wikipedia: Climate change in the United States (category)

External links

• Climate Crisis Coalition

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