Trump signs order sweeping away Obama-era climate policies
By Valerie Volcovici and Jeff Mason
| WASHINGTON Tue Mar 28, 2017
President Donald
Trump on Tuesday signed an order to undo Obama-era regulations to curb
climate change, keeping a campaign promise to support the coal industry
while calling into question U.S. support for an international deal to
fight global warming.Flanked
by coal miners, Trump enacted his "Energy Independence" executive order
at the Environmental Protection Agency. A coalition of 23 states and
local governments vowed to fight the order in court.
The order's main target is former President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, which required states to slash carbon emissions from power plants - a key factor in the United States' ability to meet its commitments under a climate change accord reached by nearly 200 countries in Paris in 2015.
Trump's decree also reverses a ban on coal leasing on federal lands, undoes rules to curb methane emissions from oil and gas production and reduces the weight of climate change and carbon emissions in policy and infrastructure permitting decisions.
The order's main target is former President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, which required states to slash carbon emissions from power plants - a key factor in the United States' ability to meet its commitments under a climate change accord reached by nearly 200 countries in Paris in 2015.
Trump's decree also reverses a ban on coal leasing on federal lands, undoes rules to curb methane emissions from oil and gas production and reduces the weight of climate change and carbon emissions in policy and infrastructure permitting decisions.
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