Trump’s Clean-Power Play

President Trump’s “contempt for clean air, clean water and our clean energy future endangers the health of our children,” thundered Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday. Please.

Trump’s moves to roll back President Barack Obama’s draconian restrictions, notably on coal, and to begin junking Obama’s Clean Power Plan, don’t doom the planet — because the Obama policies weren’t saving it.

Even under the UN climate-change models that are the epitome of climate science, the Paris accord that Obama’s policies sought to honor would only eliminate a fraction of the global warming projected through the end of the century.

Yet the restrictions on US energy production would be major job-killers.

Top Democrats occasionally admit that fact — by accident. As a candidate in 2008, Obama was caught on tape admitting he wanted higher electric bills. During last year’s primaries, Hillary Clinton let on that she wanted to “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”

The deadly economic cost is why these policies fail when put to a vote: Even the Congress that passed ObamaCare balked at the anti-warming “cap and trade” bill, or any other law to cap carbon emissions.

The Clean Power Plan was an effort to use executive power to massively reduce emissions anyway — but it was losing in the courts.

Trump’s move not only helps the economy and delivers on a promise, it also takes a step toward restoring America’s constitutional system, in which Congress passes laws — not a dictatorial president.