Nepa climate change pdf 2016

The national environmental protection agency nepa takes great pleasure in. This is consistent with the 2016 ceq guidance and with wsdots emphasis on inclusive community engagement and environmental justice in. Assessing the impacts of climate change on the built environment. Neumayr, signed the following notice on 62119, and ceq has submitted it for publication in the federal register fr. Nepa national environmental policy act final guidance. As a result the energygdp ratio often called the energy intensity of the economy declined by 49% from. For more information about climate and health connections, look for this symbol throughout the printed edition available in pdf form online. Implications of the guidance to landmanagement agencies prompted ceq to expand the draft guidance in 2011. Kentucky guidelines kentucky transportation cabinet. It follows that, under nepa, federal decision makers and the public should be informed about a proposal. Pdf climate change may be caused by both natural and. Environmental policy act guidance on consideration of greenhouse gas emissions, if finalized, would replace the final guidance ceq issued on august 1, 2016, titled final. How climate change is transforming esa and nepa analyses.

Guidance for nepa and sepa projectlevel climate change. Ceq issued draft guidance on considering climate change cc in nepa, including ghg analysis, in february 2010. The council on environmental quality ceq is issuing its final guidance on. Climate change and its effects on temperature, precipitation, storm patterns, sea. District court for the district of oregon last week issued an opinion on salmon and dams that merits the attention of anyone interested in tracking how climate change is reworking the. This is intended to replace the final ceq guidance that was issued by the obama administration in 2016 and subsequently revoked by president trump.

While the date of the final guidance is not known, nasa proactively developed a. Overview of ceq guidance on greenhouse gases and climate. The white house council on environmental quality ceq stressed in 2016 that climate change is a fundamental environmental issue, and the relation of. Climate change indicators and health the 2016 indicators report includes a feature on how climate change can affect human health and what indicators can tell us about such climate health interactions. The council on environmental quality ceq issues this guidance to assist. All these facts makes nepal very vulnerable to climate change indc, 2016. Prior versions of this guidance combined the topics of greenhouse gases and climate impacts in one guidance document. Nepa presents an opportunity to identify potential impacts in early planning, and adjust alternatives and mitigation options to develop more resilient alternatives, he said. Population growth on global climate change page 3 149%6. Air quality in nepa documents updated 033016 page ii. Data on trends of nepal from 1975 to 2005 showed that temperature rise by 0. Climate change indicators in the united states, 2016. Climate change may be caused by both natural and anthropogenic forcing, but at present time unsustainable anthropogenic activities and enormous greenhouse gases ghgs emissions are causing erratic climate change.