Trump Signs Executive Order Unwinding Obama Climate Policies

Type: 
Literature
Publication: 
Davenport, C., Rubin, A. J. 2017Trump Signs Executive Order Unwinding Obama Climate Policies.
Year Published: 
2017
Organization: 
NY Times
Description: 

Mr. Trump made clear that the United States had no intention of meeting the commitments that his predecessor had made to curb planet-warming carbon dioxide pollution, turning denials of climate change into national policy. At a ceremony, Mr. Trump directed the Environmental Protection Agency to start the complex and lengthy legal process of withdrawing and rewriting the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which would have closed hundreds of coal-fired power plants, frozen construction of new plants and replaced them with vast new wind and solar farms.

Category: 
coal emissions, greenhouse gas regulations, deregulated, Clean Power Act, Trump administration, EPA, climate change, mitigation