"President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to roll back former President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, a federal rule that was enacted to combat climate change, calling it a "crushing attack on American industry."
"The action I'm taking today will eliminate federal overreach," Trump said at the signing ceremony. "We will put our miners back to work."
"My administration is putting an end on the war on coal," he added. "We’re going to have clean coal, really clean coal."
Trump's Energy Independence Executive Order set out to curtail the Environmental Protection Agency's regulations restricting greenhouse gas emissions derived from coal-fired power plants.
EPA chief Scott Pruitt told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Sunday that the president was keeping "his promise to the American people."
"We need a pro-growth and pro-environment approach for how we do regulations in this country," Pruitt said. "For too long, we have accepted a narrative that if you're pro-growth, pro-jobs, you're anti-environment. That's not where we have been as a country. We have made tremendous progress on our environment – we can be both pro-jobs and pro-environment. The executive order will address the past administration's effort to kill jobs throughout the country through the Clean Power Plan."
(MORE: EPA Chief Claims Carbon Dioxide Is 'Not a Primary Contributor to Global Warming')
Earlier this month, Pruitt said in an interview that he didn't believe that carbon dioxide was a "primary contributor to global warming" – an opinion which runs contrary to the beliefs of the vast majority of climate scientists.
The White House had earlier announced its intention to defund the Clean Power Plan in its 2018 budget proposal, in addition to a 31 percent cut to the EPA's funding.
Environmentalists denounced Trump's executive order, saying that it would jeopardize efforts to address global warming.
"This is an all-out assault on the protections we need to avert climate catastrophe," Rhea Suh, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council said in a statement. "It's a senseless betrayal of our national interests. And it's a short-sighted attempt to undermine American clean energy leadership.""
Rest of article here: Trump Signs Executive Order to Roll Back Clean Power Plan
This is outrageous. How can you be pro-coal and pro-environment at the same time? You can't!
The truth is that people need to accept that America is a post-industrial nation. Instead of trying to live in the past and propagandize crap about "bringing back America's manufacturing" and dirty energy jobs, we should be happy that those things are gone and adjust our economic and political realities accordingly. The government should be throwing money at developing new energy sources, not trying to keep us locked into the environment and health destroying sources of the past. I'd rather they build high-tech nuclear power plants and put people to work there in the interim than putting them back in mines or to work fracking, poisoning themselves, our air and our water.
"The action I'm taking today will eliminate federal overreach," Trump said at the signing ceremony. "We will put our miners back to work."
"My administration is putting an end on the war on coal," he added. "We’re going to have clean coal, really clean coal."
Trump's Energy Independence Executive Order set out to curtail the Environmental Protection Agency's regulations restricting greenhouse gas emissions derived from coal-fired power plants.
EPA chief Scott Pruitt told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Sunday that the president was keeping "his promise to the American people."
"We need a pro-growth and pro-environment approach for how we do regulations in this country," Pruitt said. "For too long, we have accepted a narrative that if you're pro-growth, pro-jobs, you're anti-environment. That's not where we have been as a country. We have made tremendous progress on our environment – we can be both pro-jobs and pro-environment. The executive order will address the past administration's effort to kill jobs throughout the country through the Clean Power Plan."
(MORE: EPA Chief Claims Carbon Dioxide Is 'Not a Primary Contributor to Global Warming')
Earlier this month, Pruitt said in an interview that he didn't believe that carbon dioxide was a "primary contributor to global warming" – an opinion which runs contrary to the beliefs of the vast majority of climate scientists.
The White House had earlier announced its intention to defund the Clean Power Plan in its 2018 budget proposal, in addition to a 31 percent cut to the EPA's funding.
Environmentalists denounced Trump's executive order, saying that it would jeopardize efforts to address global warming.
"This is an all-out assault on the protections we need to avert climate catastrophe," Rhea Suh, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council said in a statement. "It's a senseless betrayal of our national interests. And it's a short-sighted attempt to undermine American clean energy leadership.""
Rest of article here: Trump Signs Executive Order to Roll Back Clean Power Plan
This is outrageous. How can you be pro-coal and pro-environment at the same time? You can't!
The truth is that people need to accept that America is a post-industrial nation. Instead of trying to live in the past and propagandize crap about "bringing back America's manufacturing" and dirty energy jobs, we should be happy that those things are gone and adjust our economic and political realities accordingly. The government should be throwing money at developing new energy sources, not trying to keep us locked into the environment and health destroying sources of the past. I'd rather they build high-tech nuclear power plants and put people to work there in the interim than putting them back in mines or to work fracking, poisoning themselves, our air and our water.