Trump’s climate order could take some time

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The energy industry and environmentalists could be waiting around a while for President Trump’s executive order scrapping former President Barack Obama’s climate change agenda to take effect.

The smaller pieces of the “Energy Independence” order, rolling back methane rules for the oil and natural gas industry, will be much easier to undo than the centerpiece of Obama-era climate regulations, the Clean Power Plan, which was the real target of the order that Trump signed Tuesday afternoon.

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