The head of the US Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that President Donald Trump's administration will move to repeal his predecessor Barack Obama's plan to restrict greenhouse gas emissions.
Speaking in Kentucky at a political event attended by coal miners, EPA chief Scott Pruitt said he would Tuesday "be signing a proposed rule to withdraw the so-called Clean Power PlanRead more
President Donald Trump pledged on Tuesday to revive America's coal industry by rolling back regulation, but energy experts expressed doubt his moves would significantly boost prospects for the controversial energy source.
Trump, flanked by coal miners and Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, a skeptic on climate science, vowed to end the "war on coal" as he signed an executiveRead more
A decade after "An Inconvenient Truth" sent shockwaves around the world with its dire warnings of environmental catastrophe, Al Gore is sounding the alarm on climate change again.
This time, the stakes are arguably higher with the US inauguration of Donald Trump, who has dismissed global warming as a fraud invented by the Chinese and nominated climate change skeptic ScottRead more