US Environmental Protection Agency issues climate change adaptation plan

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its draft Climate Change Adaptation Plan today in the Federal Register, allowing the public to comment on it in the next 60 days, reports The Hill. The document will outline the agency's response to global warming.

“Until now, EPA has been able to assume that climate is relatively stable and future climate would mirror past climate,” stated the agency's release. “However, with climate changing at an increasingly rapid rate and outside the range to which society has adapted in the past, climate change is posing new challenges to EPA’s ability to fulfill its mission.”