There is no mention of the Paris Agreement on climate change, from which Mr. Trump has previously said he would withdraw.
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The order represents a clear difference between how Trump and former President Barack Obama view the role the United States plays in combating climate change, and dramatically alters the government’s approach to rising sea levels and temperatures – two impacts of climate change.
A senior administration official said Monday that the new executive order will “serve the twin goals” of protecting the environment while also moving forward with energy production in the United States.
And undoing the Clean Power Plan could help Trump keep his promise to “cancel job-killing restrictions” on the production of American energy.
Today the president will announce a sweeping series of executive actions and proposed regulatory changes that aim to take a hatchet to Obama administration climate and energy policies including the Clean Power Plan, a rule created to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that was halted by the U.S. Supreme Court previous year as Republican-led legal challenges rage on in lower courts.
Trump will also rescind “Obama directives targeted for repeal [which] include one on climate change and national security, as well as a pair of directives from June 2013 that laid out his climate plans”, Dlouhy reported.
Please Wait while comments are loading. “Across the energy sector, we have so much opportunity”, he said. “They didn’t have to take steps until 2030”, he said. They’ll likely be joined by Democratic state attorneys general. The document will also wipe out the Obama administration’s coal-leasing moratorium on public lands and executive orders dealing with climate change. The US Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Clean Power Plan from taking effect until the lower court issued its ruling.
The coalition of states which brought a legal challenge against the plan included Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming, along with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality.
“Trump’s administration has been filled with individuals who have close ties to polluting interests, ExxonMobil obviously, but the Koch brothers, the largest privately owned fossil fuel interests in the country”, Mann said.
Trump accused his predecessor of waging a “war on coal” and boasted in a speech to Congress that he has made “a historic effort to massively reduce job-crushing regulations”, including some that threaten “the future and livelihoods of our great coal miners”.
– Instructions to EPA to rewrite regulations restricting carbon emissions from both new and existing power plants. “The Clean Power Plan is not tethered to the Paris accords”, he said.
But it is the power plant rules that have been the cornerstone of federal efforts on climate change.
Republican lawmakers and the Trump administration have made curbing government regulation a top priority this year.
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The Paris Agreement requires consensus for all decisions, meaning the withdrawal of a recalcitrant United States would make it easier for emitters such as China and the European Union to design details of a trillion-dollar shift from fossil fuels.
