Planned Rollback of Climate Rules Unlikely to Achieve All Trump’s Goals - The New York Times

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday to roll back most of President Barack Obama’s climate change legacy, celebrating the move as a way to increase the nation’s “energy independence” and to restore thousands of lost coal mining jobs.

But energy economists say the expected order falls short of both of those goals — in part because the United States already largely relies on domestic sources for the coal and natural gas that fires most of the nation’s power plants.

“We don’t import coal,” said Robert Stavins, an energy economist at Harvard University.  “So in terms of the Clean Power Plan, this has nothing to do with so-called energy independence whatsoever.”

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