TRUMP SCRAPS OBAMA CLIMATE CHANGE RULES

Declaring an end to what he’s called “the war on coal,” President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month that eliminates numerous restrictions on fossil fuel production, breaking with leaders across the globe who have embraced cleaner energy sources. The order will pull back August 2016 guidance from the Council on Environmental Quality on climate change and official estimates of the social cost of carbon, methane and nitrous oxide and rescind a temporary ban on new coal leases on federal lands, which Mr. Obama’s Interior Department issued in early 2016. Most scientists agree human activity is a major contributor to Earth’s rising aggregate temperature. Trump administration officials have sounded a variety of notes on the issue. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has doubted the scientific consensus that human activity is a major contributor to climate change. to scrap supprimer / executive order décret (présidentiel) / fuel ici, énergie / to embrace adopter, se mettre (à) / to pull back faire marche arrière, revenir (sur) / guidance ici, recommandations / to rescind annuler / ban interdiction / coal lease concession minière / to issue publier ici, adopter / aggregate global / to sound a variety of notes faire entendre différents sons de cloche.

THE ARTIST David Horsey (born 1951) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. His cartoons appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer until December 2011 and in the Los Angeles Times currently. They are syndicated to newspapers nationwide. He has been recognized for his work with numerous awards over the years, the most notable of which is the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

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