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AP: 'Trump set to roll back Obama policies on energy, environment'

Oklahoma oil billionaire Harold Hamm, founder and CEO of Continental Resources, is still under consideration for energy secretary, the Associated Press reports.

Trump set to roll back Obama policies on energy, environment

WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump is considering an oil billionaire and a North Dakota lawmaker for top posts as he moves to roll back President Barack Obama’s environmental and energy policies and allow unfettered production of oil, coal and natural gas.

Trump has vowed to rescind “all job-destroying Obama executive actions” and pledges to sharply increase oil and gas drilling on federal lands while opening up offshore drilling in the Atlantic Ocean and other areas where it is blocked.

 

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Joe Wertz