Trump's EPA to release plan Tuesday gutting Obama's climate rule targeting coal plants
The Trump administration on Tuesday plans to unveil a proposal to replace the Clean Power Plan, former President Barack Obama’s signature initiative to combat climate change, with a narrower rule more friendly to industry.
The Environmental Protection Agency will introduce its proposal in the morning, renamed the “Affordable Clean Energy Rule,” and President Trump is expected to tout it at a rally in coal-friendly West Virginia later that night.
The 2015 Clean Power Plan, which was never implemented because of a Supreme Court stay, required states to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, by shifting away from coal plants to natural gas and renewable energy. It was the pledge that underpinned the U.S.’ commitment to the Paris climate change agreement before Trump rejected the deal.
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