He's done that through executive orders targeting climate change programs and regulations, massive proposed spending cuts and key appointments such as Scott Pruitt as chief of the Environmental Protection Agency. Still, the sharp change in course is being felt in ways large and small, down to the scrubbing of climate change information from federal agency websites. Trump could encounter trouble if his retreat from the climate fight doesn't restore lost jobs in coal mining and energy production, Victor said. The president has made reversing the decades-long decline in coal mining the central tenet of his environmental policy, blaming federal regulations for job losses. "It's very important to us over the longer term to preserve a path for coal and coal utilization in this country."

Source: ABC News June 10, 2017 15:22 UTC