Trump takes aim at Obama Climate Action Plan

Washington: The administration of President Donald Trump is committed to eliminating former President Barack Obama’s Climate Action Plan and other environmental initiatives, according to the recently updated White House website.
“President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the US rule. Lifting these restrictions will greatly help American workers, increasing wages by more than $30 billion over the next 7 years,” the website said.
Obama’s climate plan proposed cuts to US carbon dioxide emissions, in part by preserving forests and encouraging increased use of cleaner renewable fuels.
Trump’s efforts to boost the US oil and gas sector will help increase government revenues to “rebuild our roads, schools, bridges and public infrastructure,” the website said.
Later in the day after taking over as 45th US president and in doing so inherited the White House Twitter account from outgoing leader Barack Obama.
In the first “social media transition” at the White House, Trump became owner of Twitter handle @POTUS, which represents president of the United States.
The transition on Twitter got off to a bumpy start, with an image from Obama’s 2009 inauguration briefly on the account, before being fixed minutes later.
The White House last year indicated it would hand over to Obama’s successor control of the account and other social media platforms which were launched during Obama’s eight-year tenure.
Obama, meanwhile, assumed a new Twitter handle @POTUS44, keeping some 13.9 million followers and his archived tweets in the shift.
Incoming first lady Melania Trump took over the @FLOTUS handle and Michelle Obama shifted to @FLOTUS44.
The accounts of both the president and first lady started with a clean slate.
Trump quickly garnered some 4.3 million followers for new Twitter handle in the first hour. But he continued tweeting from his old @realDonaldTrump account.