Obama Visits Florida Everglades to Press Climate Change Agenda

President Barack Obama will celebrate Earth Day by traveling to the Florida Everglades, a trip aimed at highlighting the risks posed by climate change and decrying those who deny the threat.

Wednesday’s visit will be the president’s first to the Everglades, a region the White House calls “ground zero” for the impacts of climate change. Rising sea levels in the low-lying area are eroding the shoreline, endangering the landscape and threatening drinking water supplies.

Mr. Obama’s tour of Everglades National Park is part of a broad administration-wide push to show that climate change already is affecting people where they live and to underscore the president’s commitment to taking action.