Remembering Jimmy Carter | Former president's environmental policy shaped U.S. climate action today
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Former President Jimmy Carter was widely known as being a strong environmentalist whose administration was faced with some of the nation’s most critical energy challenges in U.S. history.
Energy independence was a key focus of Carter’s administration. On Feb. 2, 1977, he signed the Emergency Natural Gas Act. Two months later, during his second national address on energy, he established the U.S. Department of Energy.
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