{"id":305993,"date":"2017-03-29T06:47:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T06:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=305993"},"modified":"2017-03-29T06:47:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T06:47:53","slug":"trump-signs-order-undoing-obama-climate-change-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=305993","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs order undoing Obama climate change policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">President Donald Trump has signed an executive order rolling back Obama-era rules aimed at curbing climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The president said this would put an end to the &#8220;war on coal&#8221; and &#8220;job-killing regulations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Energy Independence Executive Order suspends more than half a dozen measures enacted by his predecessor, and boosts fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Business groups have praised the Trump administration&#8217;s move but environmental campaigners have condemned it.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the White House, a few hundred protesters gathered to vent their displeasure at the executive order.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, the president was flanked by coal miners as he signed the order, saying: &#8220;My administration is putting an end to the war on coal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With today&#8217;s executive action I am taking historic steps to lift the restrictions on American energy, to reverse government intrusion and to cancel job-killing regulations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the campaign, he vowed to pull the US out of <a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-china-37265541\">the Paris climate deal<\/a> agreed in December 2015.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/B2B2\/production\/_95364754_us_energy_sources_624.png\" alt=\"Graphic showing US energy sources\" width=\"624\" height=\"444\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While campaigning for the presidency, Mr Trump argued that the agreement was unfair to the US.<\/p>\n<p>The landmark agreement commits governments to moving their economies away from fossil fuels and reducing carbon emissions to try to contain global temperature rise.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump has in the past said climate change had been &#8220;created by and for the Chinese&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But at the end of last year, he acknowledged that there was &#8220;some connectivity&#8221; between human activity and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>It is now unclear where exactly the US stands in relation to the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the US chooses, the EU, India and China say they will stick to their pledges made in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has signed an executive order rolling back Obama-era rules aimed at curbing climate change. The president said this would put an end to the &#8220;war on coal&#8221; and &#8220;job-killing regulations&#8221;. The Energy Independence Executive Order suspends more than half a dozen measures enacted by his predecessor, and boosts fossil fuels. Business groups [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[1135,264,5651],"class_list":["post-305993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-climate-change","tag-donald-trump","tag-trump-climate-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}