Why Trump’s EPA wants to kill the nation’s most ambitious climate change plan

After President Donald Trump called coal “indestructible” last week while also expressing concern for the number of birds killed by wind turbines, it was all the more evident that the Clean Power Plan — the Obama-era strategy intended to dramatically slash America’s reliance on coal-generated electricity — was in hot water. 

Tuesday morning, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, announced a strategy dubbed the “Affordable Clean Energy” rule, or ACE,  to completely replace the Clean Power Plan. 

The ACE rule is specifically designed to keep the American coal industry, which has been in significant decline for over a decade, afloat.  Read more…

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