[font face=Serif][font size=5]President Trump Takes Immediate Aim at Obama’s Climate Action Plan[/font]

[font size=4]Shortly after Donald Trump took office, climate change and clean energy disappeared from the White House website.[/font]

by James Temple | January 20, 2017

[font size=3]The newly minted Trump administration wasted little time establishing that it will chart a starkly different course on energy policy than President Obama. On the White House website Friday, a new page called "An America First Energy Policy Plan" appeared shortly after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. The plan asserts that Trump and his new hires will move to eliminate climate regulations and boost coal, oil, and gas production.

Conspicuously, the URL to the climate change page also went dead.

The new plan makes no mention of solar, wind, or other sustainable energy sources. The closest it gets is stating a commitment to "clean coal technology," which still hasn't been demonstrated to work in a cost-effective way.

"For too long, we’ve been held back by burdensome regulations on our energy industry," the plan reads. "President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule. Lifting these restrictions will greatly help American workers, increasing wages by more than $30 billion over the next 7 years."

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