Mubasher: The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is tending to cancel the Clean Power Plan (CPP) approved under the Obama administration.
The EPA will propose dropping the plan, in line with replacing it with new regulations “to reduce CO2 emissions from existing fossil fuel electric utility generating units”, according to an EPA document seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
The federal agency is currently considering an “Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking”, the EPA added.
The CPP was formed to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants in the US below 2005 levels to 32% by 2030.
These climate change rules were deemed as the US’s main tool to meet the emissions' cuts it promised in the global pact of Paris Climate Agreement to fight climate change, the news agency noted.
President Trump had previously announced the US’s withdrawal from the Paris deal, expressing his doubts over the science of climate change.
The Republican president had also blamed former president Barak Obama for ruining the coal mining and oil drilling industries.
