Trump’s EPA Choice a Critic of Obama’s Carbon Emissions Plan

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency is a key critic of President Barack Obama’s plan to address climate change by slashing carbon emissions from the nation’s power plants. Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt was one of the officials from 27 states who filed a lawsuit in January seeking to block the Clean Power Plan, which through the EPA called for states to come up with ways to reduce overall emissions by 32 percent below 2005 levels...

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