Trump administration to propose repealing Obama’s key effort to combat climate change – Chicago Tribune
Article Synopsis – The Trump administration plans to scrap the Clean Power Plan, which was aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, as part of a broader effort to obliterate efforts to make combating climate change a top government priority. The Clean Power Plan directed every state to form detailed plans to reduce CO2 emissions, with the goal of decreasing carbon pollution by about one-third by 2030. In the proposed repeal the EPA does not offer an alternative plan for regulating emissions of carbon dioxide, which the Supreme Court has ruled that the agency is obligated to do. To read the actual article click here.