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The article reports on the plan of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make a change to the way it assesses scientific work. The change would restrict the research available to the agency when writing environmental regulations. According to EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, the release of raw data would let other scientists and industry groups test the findings more thoroughly.

The article discusses the climate change mitigation plan of U.S. President Barack Obama to be released on August 10, 2015. Topics addressed include commentary on the strictness and aggressiveness of the environmental regulations to be proposed, an overview of several particular measures addressing the energy resource industries, and discussion of Obama's motivations for the initiative in regard to his political legacy.