Trump launches cutbacks of climate policies
After long threatening to rollback Obama's climate policies, Donald Trump has signed a degree to dismantle climate change efforts in favour of oil and gas.
BY SØREN SPRINGBORG & RITZAU
The US will be a much more friendly country to investments coal and oil while close to a decade of efforts to reduce the country's CO2 emissions will be slashed. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has seen its resources stripped back after President Donald Trump paid a visit yesterday in order to sign a decree dismantling the environmental protections which are a centrepiece of President Obama's environmental legacy.
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