President Trump plans to drop climate change as a factor in making government decisions, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
The move, which would allegedly environmental reviews of appliance standards, industry rules, and pipeline projects, would mostly reverse how the Obama administration addressed climate change.
Former President Obama required government departments to publish official environmental reviews that included the possible economic harm and impact projects would have from climate change.
Trump’s plan would also reevaluate the measurement the Obama administration used to measure projects’ expected economic costs and damage to the climate, called the social cost of carbon, Bloomberg reports. Obama used the metric to justify a set of rationalizing regulations.
Should Trump sign the order treating this Obama-era approach, some changes could be applied immediately while some could take years.