The Trump Administration has just ended the Clean Power Plan. <\/p>\n
From USA Today<\/a>:<\/p>\n WASHINGTON \u2014 The Trump administration’s move to start dismantling the Clean Power Plan rule intended to curb carbon emissions that contribute to global warming will not be a quick process.<\/p>\n EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s announcement Sunday to a group of coal miners in eastern Kentucky that he plans to sign a proposed rule Tuesday rolling back the Obama-era rule is simply the first of a number of steps the agency will have to take.<\/p>\n Proposing a rule to undo a regulation takes the same time-consuming, pain-staking, research-based, legally-defensible process used to adopt the very rule targeted for elimination.<\/p>\n “Today\u2019s proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan just begins the battle,” David Doniger, a climate change expert with the Natural Resources Defense Council, wrote in a blog Monday. “Pruitt\u2019s EPA must hold hearings and take public comment, and issue a final repeal \u2014 with or without a possible replacement. He must respond to all legal, scientific, and economic objections raised, including the issues we lay out here.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Trump Administration has just ended the Clean Power Plan. From USA Today: WASHINGTON \u2014 The Trump administration’s move to start dismantling the Clean Power Plan rule intended to curb carbon emissions that contribute to global warming will not be a quick process. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s announcement Sunday to a group of coal miners … Continue reading Trump Ends Clean Power Plan<\/span>