US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that undoes the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan and has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review and rewrite it.
The targeted plan called on governments to reduce carbon emissions from power plants and had an overall goal of cutting missions by at least 26% by 2025. And by 32% by 2030, which would have reduced significantly the share of coal in power generation worldwide.
The “Energy Independence” executive order, Law360 reports (sub. required) also instructs the US Department of the Interior to overturn a rule regulating hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
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