Trump’s Executive Order reducing environmental regs draws harsh criticism

Surrounded by coal miners, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday intended to undo a range of President Obama’s climate change regulations. The Trump administration says the regulations are hurting oil and coal producers. Environmental groups are vowing to fight the order in court. The biggest regulation rolled back would be President Obama’s Clean Power Plan that required states to reduce carbon emissions from power plants in order to get the United States to adhere to a global climate change accord signed by 200 countries in Paris in 2015. The order directs the Environmental Protection Agency to review … Continue reading Trump’s Executive Order reducing environmental regs draws harsh criticism