Trump Takes a First Step Toward Scrapping Obama’s Global Warming Policy

The following article by Lisa Friedman was posted on the New York Times website October 4, 2017:

A power plant in Homer City, Pa. President Trump has vowed since the campaign to repeal the Clean Power Plan, which was designed to cut emissions from the power sector. Credit Keith Srakocic/Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will repeal the Clean Power Plan, the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s effort to fight climate change, and will ask the public to recommend ways it could be replaced, according to an internal Environmental Protection Agency document.

The draft proposal represents the administration’s first substantive step toward rolling back the plan, which was designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector, after months of presidential tweets and condemnations of Mr. Obama’s efforts to reduce climate-warming pollution. Continue reading “Trump Takes a First Step Toward Scrapping Obama’s Global Warming Policy”