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Trump takes aim at Obama’s climate legacy

Trump says he will drive oil production in places like California’s Kern County, but experts are skeptical

THROUGHOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA’S eight years in office, he slowly but surely issued environmental regulations that, taken together, positioned the U.S. as a global leader in the fight against climate change.

Many of those policies may now be dismantled. On March 28, President Trump, accompanied by energy-sector executives and coal miners, arrived at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and signed an Executive Order that dramatically shifts

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