RADICAL RETREAT WILL MEET A GREAT WALL OF OPPOSITION.

such as West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

The details shared with Bloomberg News reflected the latest draft of the White House order and could change before the announcement, which Pruitt said would happen Tuesday.

Some analysts question whether reversing the rules can save coal miner jobs. Killing the Clean Power Plan is not enough to spark a coal revival and avert a wave of planned retirements of power plants using the fossil fuel, said Kevin Book with Washington-based research firm ClearView Energy.

“Even without the Clean Power Plan, there are still 14 gigawatts of coal retirements related to” a mercury pollution rule “and market dynamics waiting in the wings,” Book said.

While the White House order will make clear that the target of the planned greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants.

Obama’s Clean Power Plan was designed to cut carbon-dioxide emissions from electricity by 32 per cent by 2030 compared to 2005 levels. The initiative has been in legal limbo since the U.S. Supreme Court stayed it while it was reviewed by a federal appeals court. The Trump administration now is expected ask that court to put the matter on hold to allow it time to revise or undo the measure — an action environmentalists have vowed to challenge.

Other policies in the crosshairs: an EPA rule setting requirements for greenhouse-gas emissions for construction of new power plants and an Interior Department regulation setting mandates on hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells on federal lands. The Interior Department’s Bureau