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
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