Trump Sweeps Away Climate Rules Vowing `New Energy Revolution’

Bloomberg discusses with Myron Ebell President Trump’s Executive Order reversing many Obama administration climate policies. 

Trump’s order was cheered by some conservatives who have been pushing the president to go even further in stripping climate regulations from the rulebooks, including by undoing the EPA’s landmark declaration that greenhouse gas emissions jeopardize the public health and welfare. That 2009 endangerment finding served as the underpinning for later EPA carbon rules.

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Myron Ebell, director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment, cast Trump’s executive order as a good start.

“It takes the necessary first steps in undoing President Obama’s energy-rationing agenda,” Ebell said by email. “Of course, there is more work to be done down the road, most importantly withdrawing from the Paris climate treaty and reopening the endangerment finding.”

The Trump administration hasn’t said if the U.S. will remain a part of that 2015 Paris climate accord — despite the president’s campaign pledges to rip up the deal that set broad, non-binding carbon-cutting targets for the U.S. and nearly 200 other countries.

Read the full article at Bloomberg.