Expand All Collapse All Extent 156 folders, approximately 10,489 pages Summary This collection consists of Council of Environmental Quality files referring to climate change, global warming, greenhouse gases, and carbon dioxide. It consists of background materials, correspondence, policy option papers, scheduling materials, and testimony Scope and Content Note The materials in FOIA 2017-1092-F are a selective body of documents responsive to the topic of the FOIA. Researchers should consult the archivist about related material. Researchers should also consult 2012-0769-F (Council of Environmental Quality papers of Kathleen McGinty). In April of 1993, President Clinton committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000. The White House Conference on Global Climate Change occurred in June of 1993 and developed options in six key areas: energy supply, energy demand, transportation, methane and other gases, sinks, and joint implementation. Public proposals where analyzed by an interagency team consisting of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Transportation, the United States Department of Agriculture, the State Department, and the Treasury Department. The Climate Change Action Plan was released in October of 1993. The Action Plan provided a response to the global warming threat, while attempting to stimulate both technological innovation and job creation. Materials in this collection primarily date to the Clinton Administration’s early efforts with climate change. These materials are authored by global organizations, the White House, Executive Agencies (namely the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency), working groups, environmental advocacy groups, green businesses, and experts in the field. These materials include agendas, correspondence, graphs and tables, lists, newsletters, notes, policy option papers, position papers, press releases, publications, reports, slides, talking points, and testimony. Materials document action plans, initiatives, models, options, and positions for analyzing climate change. Materials also regard budgets, feedback, legislative strategy, meetings, and scheduling. This collection includes records from Michael Davis, Kathleen McGinty, and Wesley Warren. McGinty served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Environmental Policy and Director of the Office on Environmental Policy in 1993 and 1994. McGinty then served as Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality from 1995 to 1998. Prior to this, McGinty worked with then-Senator Al Gore. When moving to the West Wing, McGinty carried many records from her work in his senatorial office to her new job; this material was later used as background and/or reference material in crafting legislation and policy for the Clinton Administration. McGinty’s files contain a variety of material, including this background material. Michael Davis’s Council of Environmental Quality files include correspondence to or from Marc Chupka, whose service included Chief Economist for the Office of Environmental Policy. Many of the files in OA/ID 4310 contain records concerning the White House Conference on Climate Change and the Climate Change Action Plan. Wesley Warren’s files contain correspondence and reports on climate change. Record Type Textual System of Arrangement Records that are responsive to this FOIA request were found in these collection areas— Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files. Staff and Office files were maintained at the folder level by staff members within their individual offices and document all levels of administration activity. Staff and Office files are processed at the folder level, that is, individual documents are not selected and removed from a folder for processing. While this method maintains folder integrity, it frequently results in the incidental processing of documents that are not wholly responsive to the subject area. Access Collection is open to all researchers. Access to Clinton Presidential Records is governed by the Presidential Records Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. Chapter 22, as amended) and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552, as amended) and therefore records may be restricted in whole or in part in accordance with legal exemptions. Copyright Documents in this collection that were prepared by officials of the United States government as part of their official duties are in the public domain. Researchers are advised to consult the copyright law of the United States (17 U.S.C. Chapter 1) which governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Provenance Official records of William Jefferson Clinton’s presidency are housed at the Clinton Presidential Library and administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the provisions of the Presidential Records Act (PRA). Processed by Staff Archivist, 2018. Previously restricted materials are added as they are released. Last Modified Date 2018-03-20 Container List The following is a list of documents and folders processed in response to FOIA 2017-1092-F: Box 1 Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files Council on Environmental Quality Davis, Michael Calls to Congress 8/6/1993 [OA/ID 4310] CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] – Implementation [OA/ID 4310] CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] Implementation [1] [OA/ID 4311] CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] Implementation [2] [OA/ID 4311] CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] Implementation [3] [OA/ID 4311] CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] Implementation: 1605 [Empty] [OA/ID 4311] CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] Implementation: Adequacy [1] [OA/ID 4311] CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] Implementation: Adequacy [2][OA/ID 4311] CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] Implementation: CCAP Budget[OA/ID 4311] CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] Implementation: CCAP Program Contacts[OA/ID 4311] CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] Implementation: Hydro Leading and Issues[OA/ID 4311] CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] – Implementation Kickoff Handouts /Talking Points [OA/ID 4310] CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] Implementation: Local Efforts Letters /Projects [OA/ID 4311] CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] – Implementation Memos [OA/ID 4310] CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] Implementation: USDA Actions[OA/ID 4311] CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] – New Program Options [OA/ID 4310] CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] – Organizational Structure / Comments[OA/ID 4310] CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] – Single Sheets [OA/ID 4310] CCMG [Climate Change Mitigation Group] – Member Phone (fax lists)[OA/ID 4312] CCMG [Climate Change Mitigation Group] – Memos Out [OA/ID 4312] Box 2 [CCMG Climate Change Mitigation Group] Minutes / Handouts [OA/ID 4312] Climate [Change] Action Plan – Process [OA/ID 4312] [Climate Change] Analysis / Baseline [1] [OA/ID 4312] [Climate Change] Analysis / Baseline [2] [OA/ID 4312] [Climate Change] Auto/Truck Summary [OA/ID 4312] [Climate Change] Commercial Demand – Summary [OA/ID 4312] [Climate Change] Commercial Transportation Summary [OA/ID 4312] [Climate Change] – Energy Supply Summary [OA/ID 4312] [Climate Change] – HFC’s [Hydrofluorocarbons] Baseline [OA/ID 4312] Box 3 [Climate Change] Industrial Demand – Summary [1] [OA/ID 4312] [Climate Change] Industrial Demand – Summary [2] [OA/ID 4312] [Climate Change] Infrastructure – Summary [OA/ID 4312] Climate Change: Interagency Analysis Team [OA/ID 4304] [Climate Change] IAT [Interagency Analysis Team] [OA/ID 4312] [Climate Change] Interagency Analysis Team Meeting June 22, 1993 [binder] [1] [OA/ID 4311] [Climate Change] Interagency Analysis Team Meeting June 22, 1993 [binder] [2] [OA/ID 4311] [Climate Change] Interagency Analysis Team Meeting June 22, 1993 [binder] [3] [OA/ID 4311] [Climate Change] Joint Implementation Summary [OA/ID 4312] [Climate Change] – Methane and other Gases – Summary [OA/ID 4312] [Climate Change – Methane Summary Options] [1] [OA/ID 4312] [Climate Change – Methane Summary Options] [2] [OA/ID 4312] [Climate Change] – Minutes – Chairs Mtgs [OA/ID 4312] Climate Change Mitigation Group [OA/ID 4310] Climate Change NAP – Q&A [OA/ID 4304] Box 4 [Climate Change] Notes / Handouts 6/10-11 [OA/ID 4312] [Climate Change – Personal Transport Vehicles] [OA/ID 4312] [Climate Change] Residential Demand – Summary [OA/ID 4312] [Climate Change] Sinks – Summary [OA/ID 4312] [Climate Change] State / Utility Summary Options [OA/ID 4312] Climate Change – White House Conference [OA/ID 4304] [Climate Change] Working Group Chairs Memos Out [OA/ID 4312] [Climate Change] WG [Working Group] – Phone/Fax Lists [OA/ID 4312] Climate Companies [OA/ID 4310] Climate Photos [OA/ID 4310] Climate Science [OA/ID 4310] Commercial Demand – Policy [OA/ID 4310] Conference Summary (OEP) [Office on Environmental Policy] [1] [OA/ID 4310] Conference Summary (OEP) [Office on Environmental Policy] [2] [OA/ID 4310] Conference Summary (OEP) [Office on Environmental Policy] [3] [OA/ID 4310] Conference Summary (OEP) [Office on Environmental Policy] [4] [OA/ID 4310] Box 5 Convention on Climate Change UN [United Nations] [OA/ID 4306] Correspondence – General [OA/ID 4310] Emissions Policies – Climate Change Mitigation Group [1] [OA/ID 4310] Emissions Policies – Climate Change Mitigation Group [2] [OA/ID 4310] Emissions Policies – Climate Change Mitigation Group [3] [OA/ID 4310] Emissions Policies – Climate Change Mitigation Group [4] [OA/ID 4310] Emissions Policies – Climate Change Mitigation Group [5] [OA/ID 4310] Emissions Policies – Climate Change Mitigation Group [6] [OA/ID 4310] Energy Supply – Policy [1] [OA/ID 4310] Energy Supply – Policy [2] [OA/ID 4310] General [OA/ID 4310] Box 6 General – Policy [OA/ID 4310] Germany and WorldNet [1] [OA/ID 4310] Germany and WorldNet [2] [OA/ID 4310] Industrial Demand – Policy [OA/ID 4310] Joint Implementation [OA/ID 4310] June 10-11 Conference [1993] [OA/ID 4310] Memo and Approval POTUS – CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] [OA/ID 4312] Methane – Policy [OA/ID 4310] Monitoring and Tracking Subcommittee of CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] [OA/ID 4310] National Science and Tech Committee (Global Warming) [OA/ID 4304] OECD [Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development] Climate Change Plans [1] [OA/ID 4306] OECD [Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development] Climate Change Plans [2] [OA/ID 4306] Box 7 OECD [Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development] Climate Change Plans [3] [OA/ID 4306] OECD [Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development] Climate Change Plans [4] [OA/ID 4306] Original Reservation Form [OA/ID 4310] [Participant List Changes] [OA/ID 4310] Residential Demand – Policy [OA/ID 4310] Sinks – Policy [OA/ID 4310] Testimony on Climate Change 8/4/1993 [OA/ID 4310] Testimony of Sinks 7/29/1993 [OA/ID 4310] WAVES for CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] Kickoff [OA/ID 4310] White House Event Memo Format [OA/ID 4310] White House VIPs [OA/ID 4310] Working Group – Energy Demand – Commercial and General [OA/ID 4310] Working Group – Energy Demand – Industrial [OA/ID 4310] Working Group – Energy Demand – Residential [OA/ID 4310] Working Group – Energy Supply [OA/ID 4310] Working Group – General [OA/ID 4310] Working Group – Methane Gas [OA/ID 4310] Working Group – Other Participant Nominations [OA/ID 4310] Working Groups – Sinks [OA/ID 4310] Box 8 Working Group – Transportation – Auto / Truck & General [OA/ID 4310] Working Group – Transportation – Commercial [OA/ID 4310] Working Group – Transportation – Infrastructure [OA/ID 4310] Workshop Agendas [OA/ID 4310] [Workshop Participant List] [loose] [OA/ID 4310] General Files Climate – Clean Car Initiative [1] [OA/ID 41277] Climate – Clean Car Initiative [2] [OA/ID 41277] Climate – Clean Car Initiative [3] [OA/ID 41277] Climate – Clean Car Initiative [4] [OA/ID 41277] Climate – Clean Car Initiative [5] [OA/ID 41277] Climate – Clean Car Initiative [6] [OA/ID 41277] Curb Global Warming 2000 [OA/ID 40526] General Media on Current Congress / Climate [OA/ID 41276] Box 9 Misc. Natural Resources Issues: Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate ATOC (Misc) [OA/ID 41294] [Publication – An Analysis of Public Policy Measures to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions from U.S. Transportation Sector – January 1991][OA/ID 41278] White House Conference on Climate Action – April 21, 1994 [OA/ID 41278] McGinty, Kathleen “Katie” 2nd World Climate Conference [1] [OA/ID 2897] 2nd World Climate Conference [2] [OA/ID 2897] Administration Global Warming Policy [OA/ID 2896] Appropriations 1992 – Climate Change [OA/ID 2897] Biological Evidence of Global Warming [OA/ID 2896] California Drought: Global Warming [OA/ID 2896] Carbon Dioxide Kids Pledge [OA/ID 2896] Carbon Dioxide Reduction Targets [OA/ID 2897] CCAP [Climate Change Action Plan] and Joint Implementation [OA/ID 2903] Climate [OA/ID 2895] Climate Change [OA/ID 2903] Box 10 Climate Change Action Plan [OA/ID 2896] Climate Change Country Studies [OA/ID 2895] Climate Change – Los Alamos Conference [OA/ID 2896] Climate Change: United Kingdom Discussion Document [OA/ID 2899] Costs and Benefits of Climate Change Policies [OA/ID 2896] EC [European Communities] Reports on Energy and Carbon Dioxide Tax[OA/ID 2893] Ecuador – Texaco Suits Climate [1] [OA/ID 2895] Ecuador – Texaco Suits Climate [2] [OA/ID 2895] Ecuador – Texaco Suits Climate [3] [OA/ID 2895] Global Warming and Biosphere Hearing April 9, 1992 [OA/ID 2897] Global Warming – Boucher Hearing October 1991 [OA/ID 2896] Global Warming / National Academy Speech [Empty] [OA/ID 2897] Global Warming / Ozone [OA/ID 2902] Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for Convention on Climate Change [OA/ID 2899] Box 11 [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – 1992 IPCC Supplement] [OA/ID 2896] IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] [OA/ID 2893] Issues for IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] Working Group II Dan Reifsynder [OA/ID 2893] JEC [Joint Economic Committee] Carbon Dioxide Hearing April 28, 1992 [OA/ID 2897] Lamont – Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University – Pleistocene Climate Change [OA/ID 2899] [Policy Implications of Global Warming Hearing] [Loose] [OA/ID 2897] UNCED [United Nations Conference on Environment and Development] – Climate Change [OA/ID 2891] UNGA [United Nations General Assembly] – Climate Conference Secretariat [OA/ID 2897] United States Statement at IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] Working Group II [OA/ID 2893] Warren, Wesley Climate Change [1] [OA/ID 20984] Climate Change [2] [OA/ID 20984] Climate Change [3] [OA/ID 20984] Climate Change [4] [OA/ID 20984]