"White House Pushes Climate Protections for Natural Resources"

"The White House launched a set of initiatives aimed at protecting natural resources like landscapes and water from the effects of climate change.

The actions center around making natural resources resilient to climate change, improving plants and ecosystems that capture carbon dioxide and better incorporating natural systems into infrastructure and communities, the White House said Wednesday.

The plan “identifies a suite of actions the federal government will take to enhance the resilience of America’s natural resources to the impacts of climate change and promote their ability to absorb carbon dioxide,” the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality said in a fact sheet."

Timothy Cama reports for The Hill October 9, 2014.