WASHINGTON President Trump signed on Tuesday a much-anticipated executive order

intended to roll back most of President Barack Obama s climate-change legacy, cele
brating the move as a way to promote energy independence and to restore thousand
s of lost coal industry jobs.
Flanked by coal miners at a ceremony at the Environmental Protection Agency, Mr.
Trump signed a short document titled the Energy Independence executive order, dir
ecting the agency to start the legal process of withdrawing and rewriting the Cl
ean Power Plan, the centerpiece of Mr. Obama s policies to fight global warming.
C mon fellas. You know what this is? You know what this says? Mr. Trump said to the
miners. You re going back to work.
The order also takes aim at a suite of narrower but significant Obama-era climat
e and environmental policies, including lifting a short-term ban on new coal min
ing on public lands.