Trump takes aim at Obama-era climate change policies
Clean Power Plan, other regulations headed for repeal
President Trump yesterday began dismantling former President Obama’s efforts to combat climate change, starting with a move to have the EPA formally begin the process of repealing the Clean Power Plan, which calls for a 32 percent cut in the energy industry’s carbon dioxide emissions by 2030.
“I am taking an historic step to lift the restrictions on American energy, to reverse government intrusion and to cancel job-killing regulations,” said Trump as he signed the executive order at the EPA, surrounded by coal miners and politicians – but not by EPA employees, who have been openly critical of Trump’s characterization of climate change as a “hoax” and his goal of reversing EPA efforts to reduce or reverse it.