Donald Trump made many, many pronouncements on the campaign trail, one of which was this.

We're going to cancel the Paris climate agreement and stop...

Unbelievable.

And stop all payments of the United States tax dollars to UN global warming programs.

While he can't cancel the Paris Agreement, he can and has walked away from it,

with an executive order this week, substantially erasing President Obama's climate legacy

and signaling to the world that the U.S.

is not going to meet its carbon emissions goals.

With today's executive action, I am taking historic steps to lift the restrictions on American energy,

to reverse government intrusion, and to cancel job-killing regulations.

The President's order calls for EPA Chief Scott Pruitt to dismantle the clean power plan.

That's the set of rules regulating energy plants powered by fossil fuels, a plan put in place

by the Obama administration following the 2015 Paris talks.

Even with the plan in place, we were going to have a hard time meeting the Paris goals without

the plan. Forget about it. As it is, the clean power plan never actually went into effect.

It's been held up in the courts for more

than a year. And if Pruitt does annull the regulations, the law requires another set of rules to

be put in their place. Repeal and replace. That shouldn't be a problem. So what exactly was

agreed upon in Paris? Obama declared it, quote, a turning point for the world.

The media hailed a landmark achievement.

But many climate change activists like Bill McKibbon, founder of 350.org,

decried the deal as woefully insufficient.

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