Shortly after US President Donald Trump was sworn into office on Friday, the newly updated White House website said that the new administration will eliminate the Climate Action Plan.
"For too long, we've been held back by burdensome regulations on our energy industry. President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the US rule," the website said in a page titled ‘An America First Energy Plan’.
The Climate Action Plan was the centrepiece of former President Barack Obama's climate legacy that aims to cut carbon emissions from power plants.
The new page on the website of the White House claimed that lifting these restrictions will ‘greatly help American workers, increasing wages by more than USD 30 billion (over Rs 20,000 crore) over the next seven years’.
The rest of the webpage did not mention climate change any more.
Last year, Trump had called climate change a ‘hoax’ and had threatened to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement that took effect recently.
Trump's energy plan said that the US has ‘vast untapped domestic energy reserves’ valued at USD 50 trillion in total and that the country must take advantage of the revenues from energy production to rebuild our roads, schools, bridges and public infrastructure.
The plan also vowed to revive America's coal industry.
In addition, the Trump administration pledged to work with the country's Gulf allies to develop "a positive energy relationship" as part of its anti-terrorism strategy, it said.
The new-look White House website carried a set of policy pledges that offered the broad contours of the Trump administration's top priorities.
