Exclusive: Trump EPA to propose repealing Obama's climate regulation - document

[demmiblue]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will propose repealing the Clean Power Plan - the Obama administration’s centerpiece regulation to fight climate change - and plans to solicit input on a rule to replace it, according to an EPA document seen by Reuters.

The decision marks the agency’s first formal step to sweep away the rule intended to cut carbon emissions from power plants, after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March launching the EPA’s review.

The Republican president has expressed doubts about the science of climate change and has blamed former Democratic President Barack Obama’s efforts to cut carbon emissions for hurting the coal mining and oil drilling industries.

The Clean Power Plan, or CPP, was challenged in court by 27 states after Obama’s administration launched it in 2015. It is currently suspended by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which set a deadline of Friday for a status report from the EPA on how it plans to proceed.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-epa-carbon-exclusive/exclusive-trump-epa-to-propose-repealing-obamas-climate-regulation-document-idUSKCN1C90BY

[nwduke]

1. MAPA

Make America Polluted Again. Good going you imbecile!

[joshdawg]

2. republicans once more looking after America's best interests.

[Bayard]

3. It's Environmental PROTECTION Agency!

Not, Environmental Pollution Aid.

MUST WIPE OUT everything Obama did......

[Wuddles440]

4. Can't have the...

black man's prints left anywhere. Of course, they'll be sure to blame Obama once everyone starts hacking up black soot and dying from lung diseases. But, wait, don't they promote themselves as being "pro-life"? So very confusing.