EPA Begins Rollback of Obama Clean Power Plan

The following article was posted on the TrumpAccountable.org website September 9, 2017:

The EPA took significant steps this week to repeal the Obama Clean Power Plan that seeks to cut carbon emissions from the energy sector by 32% by 2030. EPA Chief Scott Pruitt actively opposed the Clean Power Plan as Attorney General of Oklahoma and now, as the head of the EPA, he faces few obstacles as he dismantles one of President Obama’s signature environmental policies.

President Trump signed an executive order in March requiring the EPA to review the Clean Power Plan with the clear intent of repealing it. Since then the EPA has been reviewing the rule and, according to reporting from The Hill, intends to reverse it later this year. The EPA has quietly filed the repeal policy with the Office of Management and Budget for regulatory review.

While a window for public discussion will open after the new rule is entered into the Federal Register, the “EPA expects that the administrator will sign the proposed rule in the fall of 2017.”

View the post here.