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EPA Releases Agency-Wide Climate Change Adaptation Plans

EPA Releases Agency-Wide Climate Change Adaptation Plans

Created: Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 12:01
Categories:
Federal & State Resources, General Security and Resilience

On October 31, 2014, EPA released the final version of its Agency-wide Climate Change Adaptation Plan and the seventeen Climate Change Adaptation Implementation Plans. These Plans were developed in response to directives in President Obama's Executive Order 13653 - Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change. The Plans reflect input received from a public comment period and are living documents that will be periodically revised in subsequent years to account for new knowledge, data, scientific evidence, and lessons learned from EPA's ongoing efforts to integrate climate adaptation planning into its programs, policies, rules and operations. Commitments in the Climate Change Adaptation Plan include: integrating considerations of climate change into the Clean Water State Revolving Funds process and continuing to work with States to ensure investments in water infrastructure are resilient to changes in climate; and, providing communities with the tools they need to increase their resilience, such as the Stormwater Calculator and Climate Adaptation Tool.

The U.S. EPA Climate Change Adaptation Plan and the Office of Water Climate Change Adaptatation Plan have been posted below. The other plans can be found here.