SEATTLE — Washington state and Oregon will fight attempts by President Donald Trump to weaken environmental protection laws, the Democratic governors of the two states say.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown at a joint news conference on Saturday in Seattle said they support more renewable energy, caps on emissions and policies to limit pollution.
“The reason we stopped TrumpCare is because we spoke up and we spoke out,” Inslee said. “We have to do the same thing on the environment. To have a president who will in the next few days or weeks announce that he plans to roll back our efforts to fight climate change is unacceptable.”
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, on Sunday said that Trump in the coming days will sign a new executive order that unravels the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, an environmental regulation that restricts greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants.