Claim: Barack Obama will help the Gulf Coast restore the wetlands, marshes and barrier islands that are critical to tamping down the force of hurricanes.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 served as economic stimulus amidst the Great Recession.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: In foreign policy, he ordered military intervention in Iraq in response to gains made by ISIL after the 2011 withdrawal from Iraq, continued the process of ending U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan in 2016, promoted discussions that led to the 2015 Paris Agreement on global climate change, initiated sanctions against Russia following the invasion in Ukraine and again after Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, brokered a nuclear deal with Iran, and normalized U.S. relations with Cuba.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: On April 20, 2010, an explosion destroyed an offshore drilling rig at the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico, causing a major sustained oil leak.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: "Obama Legacy Will Be Recovery from Recession, Affordable Care Act".

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: After Russia's invasion of Crimea in 2014, military intervention in Syria in 2015, and the interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Obama's Russia policy was widely seen as a failure.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: with a goal to ``protect, restore, and enhance the natural integrity of coastal wetlands''.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit, President George W. Bush asked former Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton to raise funds to help rebuild the Gulf Coast region.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: On January 30, 2015, days after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a post-Sandy report examining flood risks for 31,200 miles (50,210 km) of the North Atlantic coast, President Obama issued an executive order directing federal agencies, state and local governments drawing federal funds to adopt stricter building and siting standards to reflect scientific projections that future flooding will be more frequent and intense due to climate change.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: According to the EPA, “the amount of newly created wetlands, however, could be much smaller than the lost area of wetlands— especially in developed areas protected with bulkheads, dikes, and other structures that keep new wetlands from forming inland.” When estimating a sea level rise within the next century of 50 cm (20 inches), the U.S. would lose 38% to 61% of its existing coastal wetlands.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: And finally, my administration will work with tech innovators and launch new challenges under our Climate Data Initiative, focused initially on rising sea levels and their impact on the coasts, but ultimately focused on how all these changes in weather patterns are going to have an impact up and down the United States – not just on the coast but inland as well – and how do we start preparing for that.” Obama's fund incorporates facets of both urban resiliency and human resiliency theories, by necessarily improving communal infrastructure and by focusing on societal preparation to decrease the country's vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: America 's WETLAND Foundation (AWF) is a nonprofit, tax exempt 501 (c) (3) organization with the stated mission to save and conserve coastal wetlands in the U.S. state of Louisiana.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Another important coastal habitat that is threatened by sea level rise is wetlands, which “occur along the margins of estuaries and other shore areas that are protected from the open ocean and include swamps, tidal flats, coastal marshes and bayous.” Wetlands are extremely vulnerable to rising sea levels, since they are within several feet of sea level.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: It is threatened by coastal development and marsh draining.