Here’s Why Trump Won’t Be Able to Keep His Promise Coal Miners

Pruitt said. “Across the energy sector, we have so much opportunity, George”.

FILE – French President Francois Hollande, front center, poses with world leaders for a group photo as part of the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris, Nov. 30, 2015. On the heels of reports that the Gulf of Mexico’s waters are “freakishly warm,” and the rare formation of a subtropical storm in March, news has arrived that President Trump is not terribly anxious about humans’ influence on the planet.

“We are going to go in a different direction”, said a senior administration official who briefed reporters ahead of the president’s announcement under the condition of anonymity.

“It is an issue that deserves attention”, the official said of climate change. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, however, has previously signed on to a legal challenge to the endangerment finding in 2012. The White House is expected to rescind Obama’s order to federal agencies to plan for climate change and another to have the military plan for the national security implications.

Despite the poor prospects of coal miners in need of jobs, Murray said that “it’s a better time” for the coal industry.

Obama officials depicted the rule as one that gives states and utilities “ample flexibility and the time needed to achieve these pollution cuts. while expanding the capacity for zero- and low-emitting power sources”. The coming order demonstrates Trump’s commitment to make good on his campaign promises, which helped propel him to victory in industrial strongholds such as West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

The big question for many is how will the Trump orders impact the dying coal industry.

But without the burdensome, job destroying Obama era regulations, power plants should be able to put a lid on rising electricity costs.

During his campaign, Trump criticized regulations such as the Clean Power Plan that would force a reduction in greenhouse gases, but he wasn’t explicit about how he would deal with adaptation and resiliency.

“This past administration, I think, took steps that were anti-jobs and anti-growth”.

“The administration’s “Back to the Future” environmental policy might be amusing if it were a movie, but it’s real life”, Obama EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said in a statement.

Several Western state governors and big-city mayors, including Gov.

The White House signaled in February that it meant to approve the bill to void the Obama-era rule.

The stakeholder consensus is that the coal market will continue to decline, Clean Power Plan or not.

The EPA’s Clean Power Plan, which required each state to establish a locally suitable program to cut carbon emissions from its electric utilities, was already held up in court following a lawsuit against it filed by 24 states.

Lobbyists for the energy industry and members of the business community, however, have cheered Mr Trump’s efforts. Mr. Trump plans to using the reports to craft his administration’s “America First” energy blueprint to serve what the administration calls the “twin goal” of protecting the environment and strengthening the economy by promoting energy production. With the Clean Power plan in place, it would grow even faster, the agency found, at 4.7% annually through 2030.