CLIMATE CHANGE/EPA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is formally withdrawing federal limits on carbon emissions at power plants, triggering the next stage of what is likely to be a yearslong fight over the government’s centerpiece regulation for slowing climate change.
The move pushes forward on a central pledge of President Donald Trump: a rollback of Obama -era environmental rules he has criticized for harming businesses and coal miners in particular. And it pushes the federal government further away from any effort to combat global warming, following Mr. Trump’s June announcement that he intends to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced in Kentucky that he would sign a proposal Tuesday to reverse the rules. The announcement, made at an event organized by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) in the coal-mining town of Hazard, Ky., confirmed what many had expected for weeks.”
-Timothy Puko, “EPA to Withdraw Power Plant Rules,” The Wall Street Journal online, Oct. 9, 2017 08:15pm