Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe draft also lays out options for legally blocking or weakening about a half-dozen additional Obama-era executive orders and policies on climate change. “As to climate change, I think the president was fairly straightforward: We’re not spending money on that anymore,” Mr. Mulvaney said at a White House briefing. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“The message they are sending to the rest of the world is that they don’t believe climate change is serious. It’s shocking to see such a degree of ignorance from the United States,” said Mario J. Molina, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist from Mexico who advises nations on climate change policy. “They don’t change existing law at all.”Advertisement Continue reading the main storyMuch of that task will now fall to Mr. Pruitt.

Source: New York Times March 21, 2017 22:28 UTC