Trump signs order to end ‘crushing attack’ of Obama climate legacy

Politico discusses with Myron Ebell President Trump’s executive order to reverse some of the Obama administration’s climate change policies. 

But Trump has not ordered EPA to reconsider the underlying policy that lets it regulate carbon emissions — the 2009 “endangerment finding” in which it declared that greenhouse gas pollution threatens human health and welfare. Nor will he address whether the U.S. will stay in the 2015 Paris climate accord.

“We’re happy with it so far and we look forward to the right decisions on Paris and endangerment, but I think those are still to be made and they’re a ways down the road,” said Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the former leader of Trump’s EPA transition team.

Read the full article at Politico.