Washington moves to cancel Obama's climate change plan

The US government has given the green light to cancel the Clean Power Plan for the generation of clean electricity, developed by former President Barack Obama.

On Tuesday, October 10, the HEAD of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt, signed the relevant draft resolution. As stated by representatives of the EPA, the plan causes significant damage to the national energy sector due to "excessive" regulations.

Pruitt before signing the document criticized the actions of the Obama administration. According to him, the then administration "used every opportunity and authority" to use the EPA to manage the country's energy sector and independently determine who will win and lose from climate protection policy. "That's not true," Pruitt remarked.

The Obama administration's 2015 Clean Power Plan calls for, among other things, a 32 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to 2005 levels. Washington's initiative ran into serious resistance in the states that use mainly energy generated from coal. One of the opponents of the plan was Pruitt himself, when he was the prosecutor of Oklahoma. The cancellation of Barack Obama's environmental program was one of the most important points in the election campaign of Donald Trump. In July, Washington announced the country's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement.