By Darlene Superville
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid the turmoil over
staff shake-ups, blocked travel bans and the Russia cloud hanging overhead,
President Donald Trump is steadily plugging away at a major piece of his
agenda: Undoing Obama.
From abortion to energy to climate
change and personal investments, Trump is keeping his promises in methodically
overturning regulations and policies adopted when Barack Obama was president.
It hasn't all been smooth sailing.
Trump recently failed to fulfill his pledge
to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which continues to stand as
Obama's most recognizable domestic policy achievement. Trump and House Speaker
Paul Ryan couldn't persuade enough fellow Republicans to back new health care
legislation last month. Ryan pulled the measure just before a scheduled House
vote.
Trump has had better outcomes in other
areas.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Trump signed an executive order last
week to deliver on his pledge to unravel Obama's efforts to curb global warming.
The order launched a review of the Clean Power Plan, Obama's chief effort to
curb carbon emissions by restricting greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired
power plants. Trump also lifted a 14-month-old halt on new coal leases on
federal lands. The Obama administration had imposed a three-year freeze on such
leases in January of last year.
The executive order covers a range of
other Obama-era rules, including requirements to factor the "social
cost" of carbon emissions into all regulatory actions and to crack down on
methane emissions at oil and gas wells. Business groups had complained to
Trump, himself a businessman, that the rules were intrusive and expensive.
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