Trump Has to Do Little to Keep His Climate Promises
View on Marketplace website“'The biggest effect will presumably be a halt to further regulatory action by the EPA and other agencies that had characterized the Obama Administration and would have characterized a Clinton Administration,' said Richard Newell, president of Resources for the Future.
Newell said recent efforts to cut carbon dioxide emissions especially stand to lose momentum.
'What you had seen over the last, particularly over the last eight years, was a significant movement to start to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, and that was basically a work in progress,' Newell said. 'So I think the biggest impact will be that, that will clearly stall and, I would say, probably move backwards somewhat.'”
