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| Donald Trump - he has signed away Obama-era climate change regulations |
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order undoing a slew of Obama-era climate change regulations that his administration says are hobbling oil drillers and coal miners, a move environmental groups have vowed to take to court.
The decree's main target is former President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, which required states to slash carbon emissions from power plants — a critical element in helping the United States meet its commitments to a global climate change accord reached by nearly 200 countries in Paris in 2015.
The so-called Energy Independence order also reverses a ban on coal leasing on federal lands, undoes rules to curb methane emissions from oil and gas production, and reduces the weight of climate change and carbon emissions in policy and infrastructure-permitting decisions.
"I am taking historic steps to lift restrictions on American energy, to reverse government intrusion, and to cancel job-killing regulations," Mr Trump said at the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters, speaking on a stage lined with coal miners.
Read the ABC story - “Donald Trump signs executive order sweeping away Obama-era climate change policies.”
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