From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the date.

Today, the Trump administration rolls back two more of President Obama's signature achievements,

repealing the Clean Power Plan, calling it a war on coal, and ending a federal requirement

that employers provide birth control coverage, saying we will not allow people of faith to be targeted, bullied, or silenced anymore.

It's Tuesday, October 10th.

It's great to be here today. He's indicated that I'm from this work for Commonwealth. It is good to be back home.

Lisa Friedman, what is the head of the EPA, Scott Pruitt, doing in Hazard, Kentucky on Monday?

Scott Pruitt went to the heart of coal country for one big reason, to tell them...

Here's the President's message. The war on coal is a...

In regulatory terms, what he means by that is that the administration is taking the first real steps in repealing former President Obama's signature climate change regulation,

a sweeping regulation that would have rained in carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants.

And he wanted coal miners in Kentucky to be the first to know.

Tomorrow, Washington, DC, I'll be signing a proposed rule to withdraw the so-called Clean Power Plan to the past administration.

What's happening tomorrow and what Scott Pruitt announced today is the beginning of the real work that needs to be done to end that regulation.

This Clean Power Plan that President Obama put in place, what exactly did it set out to do to the coal industry?

In technical terms, the Clean Power Plan aimed to cut emissions from the power sector, 32% by 2030 from 2005 levels.

So what does that mean in real terms? It meant that every state had to have a plan to shift away from coal, to natural gas in some cases, to renewable energy,

and the aim was to see a broad transition to cleaner energy.

The past administration was unapologetically. They were using ever been a battle, ever been a authority to use the EPA to pick winners of the losers and have regenerate electricity in the sculpture.

In his speech in Kentucky, Scott Pruitt said that the Obama administration was picking and choosing winners in the US electricity industry with the Clean Power Plan.

Is that at all accurate?

I think it depends. There's no question that the Clean Power Plan was aimed at moving the country off coal-fired power plants.

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