Trump Administration Announces Repeal of Obama-era Clean Power Plan

INJOPresident Donald Trump's administration continued its efforts to erase Obama-era climate change efforts on Monday when Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt formally announced intentions to roll back the Clean Power Plan.

The regulation was one of former President Barack Obama's signature efforts to combat climate change and aimed to reduce carbon dioxide pollution levels 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 within the power industry.

The president, however, promised during the campaign to bring coal jobs back by rescinding Obama's job-killing regulations, and in a speech in Kentucky, Pruitt said the administration's keeping that promise.

“Tomorrow in Washington, D.C., I'll be signing a proposed rule to withdraw the so-called Clean Power Plan of the past administration and thus begin the effort to withdraw that rule,” Pruitt said.

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