Trump Signs Executive Order Unwinding Obama Climate Policies -<br />By CORAL DAVENPORTMARCH 28, 2017<br />WASHINGTON — President Trump signed on Tuesday a much-anticipated executive order intended to roll back most of President Barack Obama’s<br />climate-change legacy, celebrating the move as a way to promote energy independence and to restore thousands of lost coal industry jobs.<br />Flanked by coal miners at a ceremony at the Environmental Protection Agency, Mr. Trump signed a short document titled the “Energy Independence” executive order, directing the agency to start the legal process of withdrawing<br />and rewriting the Clean Power Plan, the centerpiece of Mr. Obama’s policies to fight global warming.<br />We will put our miners back to work.”<br />But energy economists say the order falls short of both of those goals — in part because the United States already largely relies on domestic sources for the coal<br />and natural gas that fires most of the nation’s power plants.<br />“It takes a comprehensive effort involving every country doing what they committed to and more.”<br />He said Mr. Trump’s order “sends a signal to other countries<br />that they might not have to meet their commitments — which would mean that the world would fail to stay out of the climate danger zone.”<br />Tell us what you think
