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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Nov 29, 2016, 02:29 PM Nov 2016

Trump rollback of Obama climate agenda may prove challenging

WASHINGTON — Once sworn into office, Donald Trump will be in a strong position to dismantle some of President Barack Obama's efforts to reduce planet-warming carbon emissions. But experts say delivering on campaign pledges to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency and bring back tens of thousands of long-gone coal mining jobs will likely prove far more difficult for the new president.

Internal documents from the Trump transition team reviewed by The Associated Press show the new administration plans to stop defending the Clean Power Plan and other recent Obama-era environmental regulations that have been the subject of long-running legal challenges filed by Republican-led states and the fossil fuel industry.

Against that potential opposition, environmental groups are gearing up to defend Obama's environmental legacy in court.

"We anticipate challenging every single attempt to roll back regulations on air, water and climate," said Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, who added that his group is already hiring additional lawyers. Fundraising for environmental causes also has spiked since Trump's victory.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-rollback-of-obama-climate-agenda-may-prove-challenging/ar-AAkTaz9?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=edgsp

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Trump rollback of Obama climate agenda may prove challenging (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2016 OP
I anticipate that everything Trump has proposed will be challenging panader0 Nov 2016 #1

panader0

(25,816 posts)
1. I anticipate that everything Trump has proposed will be challenging
Tue Nov 29, 2016, 02:37 PM
Nov 2016

or near impossible. He's already backed off most of his campaign promises.
T and his cronies will look for the easy money scams, not anything truly
challenging.

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