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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Dharna Noor

Trump takes aim at city and state climate laws in executive order

a power plant with air pollution
Pollution rises from the stacks of an Indiana power plant. Activists called Trump’s order ‘an illegal, disgusting attempt to force everyday people to pay for the rising toll of climate disasters’. Photograph: Jason Whitman/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

Donald Trump is taking aim and city- and state-led fossil fuel accountability efforts, which have been hailed as a last source of hope for the climate amid the president’s ferociously anti-environment agenda.

In a Tuesday executive order, Trump instructed the Department of Justice to “stop the enforcement” of state climate laws, which his administration has suggested are unconstitutional or otherwise unenforceable.

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