What Environmental Initiatives has President Obama Sponsored in his Second Term?

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - Environmental Policy grade: 10 Munich University of Policy course: President Obama is going green. Will the U.S. follow? language: English abstract: 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