EU Leads Attacks on Trump's Rollback of Obama Climate Policy

The European Union has led criticism of Donald Trump's effort to unravel Barack Obama's measures to combat climate change, suggesting that Europe will now take the lead in global efforts, The Guardian reports.

The US president signed an executive order on Tuesday aimed at eliminating the clean power plan, Obama's landmark policy to set limits on the amount of greenhouse gases that power plants emit. America's commitment to the Paris accord of nearly 200 countries now hangs in the balance.

Miguel Árias Cañete, the EU's climate action commissioner, said: "We regret the US is rolling back the main pillar of its climate policy, the clean power plan. Now, it remains to be seen by which other means the United States intends to meet its commitments under the Paris agreement."