Trump repeals Obama’s limit on carbon emission

WASHINGTON: The Trump administration has confirmed plans to scrap a Barack Obama-era rule to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with the cap on carbon emissions from power plants set to go now. The new rule is expected on Tuesday.

“The war on coal is over,” Scott Pruitt, head of the environment protection agency, said at an event in Kentucky on Monday. “Tomorrow in Washington, I will be signing a proposed rule to roll back the Clean Power Plan. No better place to make that announcement than Hazard, Ky (Kentucky).”

The move is linked directly to President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to coal miners rendered jobless by a mix of green rules and market forces. Some parts of Obama’s Clean Power Plan restrictions on mining have already been removed.

In August, the Trump administration notified the UN it intended to withdraw from the Paris accord forged by Obama. Trump had accused India and China, the two countries instrumental for the accord’s conclusion, of ‘getting a free ride’

TRUMP CHALLENGES TILLERSON TO IQ TESTS

Trump has challenged Rex Tillerson to “compare IQ tests” if his secretary of state did indeed ever call him a “moron”, as reported.

Trump told Forbes magazine: “I think it’s fake news. But if he did that, I guess we’ll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tell you who is going to win.” He made the comment while speaking to the magazine on Friday. A story was published online on Tuesday.

Trump’s tense relationship with Tillerson burst into public view last week. An NBC News story claimed vice president Mike Pence had to talk Tillerson out of resigning this summer, and that Tillerson had called Trump a “moron.” Tillerson said he never considered resigning. His spokeswoman said he never used such language.

MANY AMERICAN STATES ARE SHIFTING AWAY FROM COAL POWER FOR ECONOMIC REASONS, BUT EXPERTS SAY SCRAPPING THE RULE COULD SLOW THE TRANSITION.