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Climate change hasn’t gotten much attention this election cycle. It’s hard to compete with a global pandemic. But

 most voters believe climate change poses a risk to the United States

During his time in office, President Donald Trump’s administration has rolled back

 or changed scores of environmental regulations

  — President Obama had put many of those policies in place as executive orders when he couldn’t get Congress to pass legislation.  

Wednesday at 9 a.m., MPR News host Kerri Miller looked at where we’ve been the past four years and how we got here. She spoke with two experts to assess the best path forward on U.S. environmental policy.

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President Donald Trump is a vocal climate change doubter, and he was elected after promising an era of environmental deregulation that he claimed would be more friendly to business. Did he deliver? 

The state of federal environmental policy during the Trump years

The state of federal environmental policy during the Trump years

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