Here's where 5 key Obama environmental policies stand under Trump

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Donald Trump ran for office as a climate skeptic and critic of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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So when one of the Trump teams' first acts after the election was publishing on GreatAgain.gov a manifesto on reversing the Obama-era course of American environmental policy, no one was surprised.

The then-president-elect's website promised to "end the war on coal," eliminate a number of "highly invasive" Obama administration environmental rules, and create an environmental agenda "guided by true specialists in conservation, not those with radical political agendas."

Now, more than a month into the administration, we're in a position to examine the real, material thrust of Trump's environmental agenda - which policies he's already begun to unravel, and which he's left alone.

Here's where, on February 24, 2017, Trump stands on the environment:

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