With the help of the newly elected Republican Congress and his cabinet selections, including climate skeptic Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt at the Environmental Protection Agency, President-elect Donald Trumps pledges to reverse Barack Obama's energy and environmental achievements should be within reach. But Trumps de-regulatory path is obstructed by a revved up environmental movement; complicated legal proceedings that may hamper his maneuvers; a narrowly divided Senate; an uneasy electorate that favors measures to protect the environment; and a global community unwilling to see its hard-fought consensus on climate discarded.
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