Trump's new order puts states' climate laws in crosshairs of Department of Justice | Jefferson City News-Tribune

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : In similar fashion, the state climate laws are designed to force major fossil fuel companies to pay into state-based funds based on their past greenhouse gas emissions.
43% : Trump suggested the laws "extort" payments from energy companies and "threaten American energy dominance and our economic and national security.
41% : "American energy dominance is threatened when State and local governments seek to regulate energy beyond their constitutional or statutory authorities," Trump said in the order.
40% : A new executive order from President Donald Trump that's part of his effort to invigorate energy production raises the possibility that his Department of Justice will go to court against state climate change laws aimed at slashing planet-warming greenhouse gas pollution from fossil fuels.
33% : " Separately, the Department of Justice could join lawsuits in defense of fossil fuel industries being sued, Gerrard said.
21% : Trump has declared a " national energy emergency " and ordered his attorney general to take action against states that may be illegally overreaching their authority in how they regulate energy development.
12% : California Gov. Gavin Newsom accused Trump of "turning back the clock" on the climate and said his state's efforts to reduce pollution "won't be derailed by a glorified press release masquerading as an executive order.
7% : Make Polluters Pay, a coalition of consumer and anti-fossil fuel groups, vowed to fight Trump's order and accused fossil fuel billionaires of convincing Trump to launch an assault on states.

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