Climate Changed
Trump Makes His Biggest Move Yet to Try to Save Coal Plants
- EPA scales back Obama’s Clean Power Plan curbs on emissions
- Solar, wind and natural gas have pared U.S. coal demand
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President Donald Trump is scaling back sweeping Obama-era curbs on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants burning coal, his biggest step yet to fulfill his campaign promise to stop a “war” on the fossil fuel.
Yet the Environmental Protection Agency’s rewrite of the Clean Power Plan, which was signed Wednesday in Washington, will do little to halt a nationwide shift away from coal and toward cheaper electricity generated by wind, sun and natural gas.