Archival Collections Related to the Environment
The Clinton Digital Library contains several digitized collections concerning the environment.
2012-0769-F Segment 1 Council on Environmental Quality - Kathleen "Katie" McGinty
This collection contains the records of Kathleen “Katie” McGinty. McGinty worked in the Clinton Administration from 1993 to 1998. From the start of the administration through the end of 1994 McGinty served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Environmental Policy and Director of the Office on Environmental Policy. In January of 1995 she was named as chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, through which she served as senior advisor to the President regarding domestic and global environmental, energy, and natural resources matters. She remained there until November of 1998.
2012-0769-F Segment 2 Council on Environmental Quality - Kathleen "Katie" McGinty
This collection consists of records from the files of Kathleen "Katie" McGinty, Director of the White House Office on Environmental Policy, from 1993 thru 1994. It contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, briefing materials, schedules, press guidance, emails, and notes mostly regarding global warming, climate change, logging and deforestation issues.
2013-1074-S Brian Burke Domestic Policy Council
This collection consists of Brian Burke's records from his work in the Domestic Policy Council. Specific topics include: Midwest flood plain management; environmental regulations; the U.S. Forest Service; the National Science and Technology Council; air and water quality standards; climate change; re-organization of the Environmental Protection Agency; the Domestic Gas and Oil Initiative; and departmental budget priorities for the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency.
2017-1092-F Council on Environmental Quality
This collection includes records from Michael Davis, Kathleen McGinty, and Wesley Warren. 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.
2017-1093-F Climate Change
This collection consists of records related to climate change from the White House Office of Environmental Initiatives. It contains letters, memos, press releases, briefing books, newspaper articles, reports, fact sheets, transcripts of congressional testimony, and handwritten notes regarding global warming, greenhouse gases, the ratification and implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, and congressional consultations over climate change negotiations.
2017-1094-F White House Task Force on Climate Change
This collection consists of material from the White House Task Force on Climate Change (WHTFCC). It contains reports, publications, memoranda, speeches, talking points, press releases, and emails. Topics covered by the records include global warming, greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide emissions, clean coal, Earth Day 2000, and climate change meetings that took place in Buenos Aires and The Hague.
2017-1095-F Records Regarding Climate Change from the Council of Economic Advisers Office
This collection consists of records related to climate change from the White House Staff and Office files. It contains handwritten notes, meeting notes, reports, drafts of reports, economic models and their peer reviews, background materials, briefing books, talking points, publications, charts, meeting agendas and meeting summaries.
Presidential Review Directives and Presidential Decision Directives Concerning the Environment
PDD-7 - Environmental Policy on Biodiversity and Global Climate Change, 5/27/1993
PDD-36 - U.S. Policy on Protecting Ocean Environment, 4/5/1995
PRD-43 - US Environmental Policy in Latin America and Caribbean, 3/23/1995