Trump Wins Easier Path to Scrapping Obama's Clean Power Plan
- Court stays lawsuit over climate change plan for 60 days
- Trump administration wins chance to retool or scrap initiative
Trump's Mysterious Feelings on Global Warming
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President Donald Trump won a court ruling making it easier for him to rescind the Clean Power Plan, his predecessor’s program for weaning American power producers off of coal and other fossil fuels.
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington on Friday put a 26-state lawsuit challenging the plan on hold for 60 days without deciding whether the initiative is legal. That decision followed a request to halt the case from Trump’s new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief and came despite objections from conservation groups, 18 states and cities including New York, Chicago and Philadelphia.