US President Donald J. Trump signed a much-anticipated executive order that was directed more at energy than environmental regulation. While it calls for a reevaluation of former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which was designed to aggressively reduce carbon emissions, Trump said his Mar. 28 order also will lift the federal coal leasing ban Obama’s administration imposed; “lift the job-killing restrictions on the production of coal, oil, and gas”; and return regulatory power to states.

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