
Yesterday President Trump made a trip to the Environmental Protection Agency to sign an executive order titled the "Energy Independence Executive Order" which takes aim at rolling back Obama's disastrous Clean Power Plan. The new executive order also lifts a ban on leasing federal lands for coal mining, nixes new regulations aimed at trapping every last molecule of methane from oil and gas drilling & pipelines (unrealistic and very costly), and reduces, but does not eliminate, the role of so-called global warming when making decisions about authorizing new infrastructure projects. It was, by all accounts, a red letter day for responsible environmental policy--a day to correct some of the extreme overreach we've seen by the EPA over the past eight years under the Obama regime. Below we have a copy of the executive order and some of the reaction to it...
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