US EPA gives coal industry a reprieve

By By Ellen Knickmeyer
Updated June 20 2019 - 10:23am, first published 10:19am
EPA boss Andrew Wheeler repealed of one of the Obama era's two biggest climate change initiatives.
EPA boss Andrew Wheeler repealed of one of the Obama era's two biggest climate change initiatives.

Amid scientists' increasingly urgent warnings, the Trump administration has ordered a sweeping about-face on Obama-era efforts to fight climate change, easing restrictions on coal-fired power plants in a move it predicted would revitalise America's sagging coal industry.

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