Trump signs executive order on climate change

Mr. Trump’s push to reverse the climate plans of former president Barack Obama is raising concerns in Canada that domestic industries will find it tougher to compete and raise capital, especially in energy-intensive industries.

“We need to stop President Trump’s rollbacks of our environmental protections that will make us more dependent on dirty fossil fuels”. The order will instruct federal regulators to rewrite Clean Power Plan rules that curb USA carbon emissions, as well as halt other environmental regulations. Raney was encouraged by Trump’s embrace of the coal industry but cautioned, “No one has a feel for what the numbers are going to be”.

“Much of the mercury that ends up in the fish in the Great Lakes originated from regional coal fired power plants in the US”, said Tom Holsen, environmental engineering professor. We will produce American coal to power American industry. “Republican leaders shouldn’t be trying to undermine the progress we’ve made in order to satisfy their ideological aversion to reality”.

Ivanka Trump once encouraged women to state their job titles.

“I went to a group of miners in West Virginia and I said, ‘How about this: Why don’t we get together, we go to another place and you’ll get another job?”

Green group Earthjustice was one of many organisations that said it will fight the order both in and out of court.

The order makes good on Trump’s campaign pledge to unravel former President Barack Obama’s efforts to curb global warming, eliminating almost a dozen measures in an effort to boost domestic energy production, especially oil, natural gas and coal.

Tuesday’s executive action was only the beginning, as other agencies across government will receive directives from Trump as well.

The VanEck Vectors Coal exchange-traded fund (KOL) gained 0.94% on the news.

Trump promised “clean coal, really clean coal” and heaped praise on the miners behind him.

InsideClimate News also alleges that Amoco, Phillips, Texaco, Shell, and others joined Exxon in misleading the public about the supposed effects global warming has on sea levels. The Clean Power Plan would cut those emissions and carbon pollution 32 percent below 2005 levels by the year 2030.

Scientists, officials and environmental campaigners in Europe said Tuesday that the United States would be damaging its own interests if it rolls back the previous administration’s efforts to curb climate change. And just like Republicans were angry when they believed the USA was acting on climate while no one else was, leaders around the globe are furious about the Trump administration’s decisions to scale back environmental protections that undermine global climate agreements.

Trump said his order is aimed at prioritizing the economy and getting rid of unneccesary regulations.

The President’s promises to boost coal jobs run counter to market forces, such as USA utilities converting coal-fired power plants to cheaper, cleaner-burning natural gas.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Trump strongly believed that protecting environment and “promoting our economy are not mutually exclusive goals”.

Today’s executive action reportedly orders the Department of Justice to ask the DC Circuit Court to freeze the legal challenge now pending against the rule. He says the plan did nothing but kill jobs.

A coalition of 16 states and the District of Columbia said they will oppose any effort by the Trump administration to withdraw the Clean Power Plan or seek dismissal of a pending legal case before a federal appeals court in Washington.

During the signing ceremony, Trump said that the order will “eliminate federal overreach” and “start a new era of production and job creation”. EPA will review regulations on methane emissions from new oil and natural gas systems, and Interior will review rules for hydraulic fracturing on federal lands.

“We’re going to have safety, we’re going to have clean water, we’re going to have clean air, but so many [regulations] are unnecessary, so many are job-killing”, Trump continued.

Environmental groups were opposed to the move. “And I think that what President Trump is harming the most vulnerable with his executive orders“.

Former vice-president Al Gore blasted the order as “a misguided step away from a sustainable, carbon-free future for ourselves and generations to come”.

“The president’s order will leave the United States far behind our competitors in developing new, cleaner fuel sources”, Feinstein said.