Protection of the Environment

Federal Agencies and Climate Change Climate change is today affecting communities and environment across the world. In response, the federal governments have taken action to help people to adapt to current and potential risks through programs and policies. The federal agencies are taking leadership roles in enabling the state and communities in their adaptation planning and projects. In many countries, such as the United States, policy is set by the President, while the congress has the role to set laws.

The Supreme Court on the other hand, is responsible for resolving the conflict of policy (Russell, 2013). This paper will therefore research on the federal agencies and cabinet departments which are important in determining causes of climate change as well as, identifying the ones that formulate and execute policies in response to assertions of climate change.

There are a number of federal agencies and cabinet departments which are responsible in determining the existence and causes of climate change; these include, National Naval Officers Association (NNOA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Air and Space Administration (NASA), the State Department and many others. The President is the Chief of the federal government; therefore, he or she has the role of setting the agenda that is expected to be executed by subordinate departments and agencies (Wellman, 2014). In the United States, the issue of climate change receives much higher attention.

In 2009, the President of the United States Barack Obama initiated Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force (ICCATF), which had representatives from 20 Federal Agencies chaired by the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Given that many societies are directly or indirectly affected by climate change as a result of global warming, the departments as well as, the agencies have in actual fact focused on the problem.

This is because; the Department of Agriculture has a major stake in understanding the benefit of agriculture particularly to the economies of all agriculture producing countries and to the world food supplies along with the effects of climate changes on Agriculture (Stephenson, 2006). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plays a significant role in investigating what causes climate change so as to implement policies and regulations, which reverse the problem.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers on the other hand, are concerned with the effects of climate change because of their mission to build structures that protect cities and towns, for instance, the levees that protect the city of New Orleans against rising sea levels. However, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is said to be the most important federal agency which is involved in researching climate change by collecting important data used to study climate and weather patterns (Stephenson, 2006).

The National Air and Space Administration (NASA) on the other hand, is responsible for developing and implementing the space program in the nation by focusing on the climate change as part of its mission in order to support humanity through information from space. Studies show that there are several satellites in space which record and transmit information on the earth's atmosphere, on the spread of deforestation.

The satellite also help the scientists to explore the deepest reaches of space; the International Space Station, which is extending the permanent human presence in space; and Earth science satellites that send back data on oceans, climate, and other features (Russell, 2013). One of the Federal agencies that try to formulate and execute policies in response to assertions of climate.