Trump orders review of Clean Power Plan

In a ceremony at the Environmental Protection Agency, flanked by coal miners, President Donald Trump announced his latest executive order: a review of the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era program to lower emissions of greenhouse gasses from coal-fired power plants, along with a review half-a-dozen other clean-energy regulations signed by President Obama..

Trump said he was there to “celebrate the start of a new era in American energy production and job creation.”

“With today’s executive action I am taking historic steps to lift the restrictions on American energy to reverse government intrusion and to cancel; job-killing regulations,” Trump told the appreciative crowd.

The new executive order also lifts a moratorium on new leases of federal lands for coal mining.

President Trump campaigned on the promise to bring back jobs to coal miners.

“I made them this promise: we will put our miners back to work,” Trump said of the coal miners on stage with him.

“Today I am taking bold action to follow through on that promise. My administration is putting an end to the war on coal.”

This new executive action should promote the use of coal and also other fossil fuels, including oil and natural gas.