US signs executive order to roll back Obama's climate change measures

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to roll back his predecessor Barack Obama's climate change measures keeping up his campaign promise. Trump, after signing the order yesterday said that the executive action is a historic step to lift the restrictions on American energy, to reverse government intrusion and to cancel job-killing regulations. 

The President



said, this decision is the latest in the series of steps to create American jobs and to grow American wealth. The Executive Order directs all agencies to conduct a review of all regulations, rules, policies and guidance documents that put up roadblocks to domestic energy production. The opposition Democratic party and environmental groups, however, slammed Trump for his latest move.