Trump's expected VP pick: coal advocate who defied Obama's climate agenda
Source: Reuters
Politics | Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:05pm EDT
Trump's expected VP pick: coal advocate who defied Obama's climate agenda
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK | BY VALERIE VOLCOVICI AND GRANT SMITH
Republican Donald Trump's expected selection of Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate cheered the U.S. energy industry and dismayed green advocates on Thursday, with both sides citing Pence's support for coal mining and defiance of President Barack Obama's climate-change agenda.
Trump has called climate change a hoax and promised to gut U.S. environmental regulations in order to help the ailing oil and coal sectors. A Trump-Pence ticket would quash any expectation that the New York businessman might soften that stance heading into the Nov. 8 election.
"Governor Pence has been a vocal opponent of the administration’s Clean Power Plan," said Laura Sheehan, spokeswoman for the Washington-based lobby group American Council on Clean Coal Electricity.
"We would hope to see a continuation," she said.
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"The choice of Pence shows Trump has little interest in appealing to anyone outside of his extremist base and Big Polluters," said Clay Schroers, a director at the League of Conservation Voters environmental group.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-pence-climatechange-idUSKCN0ZU2OB
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