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EU regrets Trump’s reversal of climate policy

By on March 29, 2017

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 28, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump, accompanied by from left, Vice President Mike Pence, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt, and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, speaks at EPA headquarters in Washington, prior to signing an Energy Independence Executive Order. Environmental groups are preparing to go to court to battle Trump's efforts to roll back his predecessor's plans to curb global warming. But they say their first order of business is to mobilize a public backlash against an executive order Trump signed on Tuesday that eliminates many restrictions of fossil fuel production. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

In this March 28, 2017 photo, President Donald Trump, accompanied by from left, Vice President Mike Pence, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt, and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, speaks at EPA headquarters in Washington, prior to signing an Energy Independence Executive Order. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

BRUSSELS – The European Union has expressed regret about President Donald Trump’s decision to undo U.S. policies for fighting global warming and is wondering how he will live up to Washington’s international climate commitments.

EU Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete said in a statement Wednesday that “we regret the U.S. is rolling back the main pillar of its climate policy, the Clean Power Plan.”

Canete said “it remains to be seen by which other means the United States intends to meet its commitments under the Paris Agreement” to fight climate change.

He said the EU sees the agreement as way to create jobs and spur investment and economic growth, and said the bloc would continue to respect its commitments.

Trump signed an executive order Tuesday eliminating numerous restrictions on fossil fuel production.

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