We have a president that wants to expand dirty forms of energy like coal that employ

increasingly few people and are terrible for the environment.

The world is laughing at us.

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and this is hell.

This week Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders paving the way to destroy virtually all

of Barack Obama's climate change and environmental actions and executive orders.

Here are some of the biggest changes that Trump has in store for us.

The first is paving the way to eliminate the Clean Power Plan.

It's difficult to overstate how important the Clean Power Plan is in terms of our commitment

to reaching the goal set by the Paris Climate Accord to taking responsibility for the future

change in global temperatures.

But here's what it is.

The Clean Power Plan was a major EPA rule aiming to cut emissions from existing U.S. power

plants 32% below 2005 levels by 2030.

Now that is just a part of what's necessary for us to cut our total carbon emissions

enough to avoid catastrophic climate change.

It's very important.

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