Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, promised on Thursday to roll back some of America’s most ambitious environmental policies if elected, actions that he said would revive the ailing U.S. oil and coal industries and bolster national security. Trump said he would pull the United States out of the U.N. global climate accord, approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada and rescind measures by President Barack Obama to cut U.S. emissions and expand protections for U.S. waterways. “Any regulation that’s outdated, unnecessary, bad for workers or contrary to the national interest will be scrapped and scrapped completely,” Trump said at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck, the capital of oil-rich North Dakota. It was Trump’s first speech detailing the energy policies he would advance from the White […]

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