EPA chief Scott Pruitt announces withdrawal of clean power plan
The Trump administration is taking aim at yet another Obama-era climate change initiative. The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says rules limiting pollution from power plants are to be scrapped.
10 Oct 2017
More video clips from the story
![The United States has reported more than 13.04 million cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University [File: Callaghan O'Hare/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-24T121145Z_2140364911_RC2O9K9ERDXL_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-HOSPITALS.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![US President-elect Joe Biden has signalled plans to try to return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran [File: Joshua Roberts/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-25T202334Z_1588921814_RC2KAK91LT55_RTRMADP_3_USA-BIDEN.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![It is early in the season, but both wholesale tree farmers and small cut-your-own lots are reporting strong demand, with many opening well before Thanksgiving Day [File: Paula Bronstein/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/trees.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![A Somali policeman secures the scene of a suicide explosion at a restaurant near a police academy, in Mogadishu [File: Feisal Omar/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-17T144605Z_703722040_RC225K91VAD2_RTRMADP_3_SOMALIA-SECURITY.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada's COVID-19 vaccine roll-out would be the 'biggest immunisation in the history of the country' [File: Blair Gable/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-27T170928Z_839591056_RC2TBK9JYX0E_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-CANADA.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![Photo released by Fars News Agency shows the scene where Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in Absard, a small city just east of Tehran, Iran [Fars News Agency via AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20332553223127.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![A wooden sign advises motorists of the location of Mashpee Wampanoag tribal lands in Massachusetts in the US [Steven Senne/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_18177751163529.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, right, sits alongside two unidentified men in a meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, January 23, 2019 [File: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20332604147615.jpg?resize=170%2C113)