Trump Signs Order Rolling Back Obama Admin’s Efforts To Combat Climate Change

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will roll back many of former President Barack Obama’s efforts to curb global warming. The order is aimed at helping spur American energy jobs.

The president signed the order at the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Trump says this is “the start of a new era” in energy production.

The order will mandate a review of the Clean Power Plan, which restricts greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants. It will also lift a 14-month-old moratorium on new coal leases on federal lands.

Trump has called global warming a “hoax,” and has repeatedly criticized Obama’s efforts as an attack on American workers and the struggling U.S. coal industry.

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  1. A 12 word headline followed by a 14 word story.

    Who said hard-hitting journalism was dead?

  2. Yeah. This morning, TPM ran an AP article of similar brevity wherein AP acted as stenographer for the Trump tweet about Ford, but neglected to mention this:

    Trump praises Ford’s ‘big announcement,’ even though it predates his presidency

    Trump applauded Ford’s move to invest $1.2 billion in three Michigan facilities, including an engine plant where it plans to add 130 jobs, the Associated Press reports. But the investments were in the works well before Trump took office.

  3. I guess because he thinks he hasn’t been a big enough dick already he had to go over to the EPA to sign it.

  4. I’ve said it before, I really can’t wait to hear his reaction when the Atlantic Ocean is lapping up on the 18th hole as Mar-a-Lago. Cognitive dissonance is a mental disorder in some people.

  5. Out of all of Trump’s abominations, this just might go down as the worst long-term thing that he does to damage the country/ planet!

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