Reversal planned on cuts in carbon emissions
The Trump administration’s top environmental officer says an executive order to be issued Tuesday will begin dismantling a rule under former President Barack Obama that slashed carbon dioxide emissions and discouraged coal-fired electricity.
The executive order is going to address the past administration’s effort to kill jobs across this country through the Clean Power Plan,” Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.
Under Obama, the EPA set a goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 32 percent below 2005 levels by the year 2030, and its Clean Power Plan dictated specific targets for states to reach.
[...] utilities have already shed coal-fired electricity and added natural gas and renewable power, partly in a bid to satisfy the looming requirements.