Trump Administration Seeks Halt to Clean Power Plan Review
- EPA’s request may be death knell for Obama-era carbon rules
- Democratic officials to oppose reversal on climate-change
Trump Signs Executive Order on Energy Independence
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President Donald Trump took another step toward dismantling his predecessor’s climate-change legacy, asking a federal appeals court to halt its review of carbon-emission rules for power plants.
Trump, who famously called climate change a hoax in a 2012 tweet, on Tuesday signed an executive order that starts unraveling a raft of rules and directives to combat climate change. That was followed Wednesday by a bid to place on hold a 26-state suit challenging the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s environmental agenda -- the Clean Power Plan -- so the new administration can dismantle it ahead of a ruling on its legality.