Climate Changed
Trump EPA Draws Scorn for Touting Lower Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
- Emissions continue long-term decline even as rules rolled back
- Private sector, not federal mandates, drives drop, EPA says
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The Trump administration celebrated reductions in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions even as it rolls back pollution curbs that could imperil that progress, drawing scorn from environmentalists.
Data released Wednesday from industrial facilities that showed total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.7 percent between 2016 and 2017. EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler gave credit to President Donald Trump’s “regulatory reform agenda.”