Claim: The Obama administration "has been constrained by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which basically gives the responsible party the lead role in trying to not only fix the problem, but contain the problem."

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: On September 30, 2009, the Obama administration proposed new regulations on power plants, factories, and oil refineries in an attempt to limit greenhouse gas emissions and to curb global warming.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Obama's approach of selectively combining regulation and incentive to various issues in the domestic energy policy, such as coal mining and oil fracking, has received mixed commentary for not being as responsive to the needs of the domestic manufacturing sector as needed, following claims that the domestic manufacturing sector utilizes as much as a third of the nation's available energy resources.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: The Clean Power Plan was an Obama administration policy aimed at combating global warming that was first proposed in 2014.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or sometimes USEPA) is an agency of the Federal government of the United States which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The Clean Power Plan was an Obama administration policy aimed at combating anthropogenic climate change (global warming) that was first proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in June 2014.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: In 2014, President Barack Obama proposed a series of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations, known as the Clean Power Plan that would reduce carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Legislation passed by the US Congress in 1990 required the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a plan to alleviate toxic air pollution from coal-fired power plants.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is a United States environmental law that promotes the enhancement of the environment and established the President 's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: According to the EPA, the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments has prevented or will prevent:

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: In regard to the United States of America, The Government and the Economy has had a long lasting impact on the environment, but in a problematic way.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The Waste Prevention Rule which was enacted by the Obama Administration in November 2016 to regulate limits on the amount of methane released while drilling for oil and natural gas on federal land was repealed on September 18, 2018.