Climate Guidance Revamp to Give Public a Say, Trump Adviser Vows

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President Donald Trump’s top environmental adviser vowed May 15 to give the public a chance to weigh in on the Trump administration’s plans for replacing the Obama administration’s broad climate change policy. Mary Neumayr, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee she’ll release a draft of the Trump guidance, which has been under review at the Offce of Management and Budget since February, and invite the public to comment before making it Releasing the draft for comment “will depend on the OMB process, but we anticipate we’ll move forward in the near future,” she told senators. Committee Democrats pressed Neumayr to pledge a broad outreach effort before moving any actual replacement for the Obama climate guidance, which directed agencies to address climate change in environmental reviews. They said they expect the new policy to diminish or even ignore the need for environmental assessments to include a review of climate impacts.