Washington, April 11 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed the Justice Department to stop the enforcement of state climate laws.  Trump’s sweeping executive order seeks to gut California’s cap-and-trade program to limit carbon emissions, as well as “climate superfund” laws like New York’s and Vermont’s requirements that major fossil fuel companies help cover the costs of extreme weather events. 

In a statement, the climate action group the Sunrise Movement said, “This is corruption at its most blatant.  Last spring, Trump told oil and gas billionaires that if they gave his campaign a billion dollars, he would do their bidding.  The money flowed, and now they are cashing in.”

[ SOURCE: DEMOCRACY NOW ]