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| Trump administration to end key part of Obama's climate plan | Trump administration to end key part of Obama's climate plan |
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| The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said that he will sign a new rule overriding the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era effort to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. | |
| “The war on coal is over,” EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt declared in the coal mining state of Kentucky. | “The war on coal is over,” EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt declared in the coal mining state of Kentucky. |
| Mr Pruitt's announcement at the event with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said: "the EPA and no federal agency should ever use its authority to say to you we are going to declare war on any sector of our economy." | |
| The repeal of the CPP was one of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign promises and with the appointment of Scott Pruitt, tied to the oil and gas industry in his home state of Oklahoma, the fate of Barack Obama's environmental legacy may have been sealed. | |
| The CPP, called a “game changer” by the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2015 after it was passed into law, regulates the carbon emissions of power plants. | |
| According to the Washington DC-based organisation, power plants account for almost 40 per cent of the country’s emissions - “more than every car, truck, and plane in the US combined.” | |
| Had the CPP been implemented it would have reduced power plants’ carbon emissions by 2030 to a level 32 per cent lower than they were in 2005. | |
| Every state would have its own plans to reach its own, various emissions targets under the CPP had it been left in place. | |
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