Indeed, the administration has regularly shown contempt for the idea that consequential policy decisions require serious justification or a weighing of their consequences. The Post's Michelle Ye Hee Lee reports that in justifying the rollback of the Clean Power Plan  which seeks to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants  the administration is citing questionable data furnished by an industry group, rather than by government agencies. This reinforces the Times's similar conclusion above. Trump has also scrapped a moratorium on the leasing of federal land for coal mining, claiming this will create jobs. But as David Roberts reports on vox.com, all this does is lift a hold that was designed to be temporary, while our leasing policies are reviewed to see if they are good for taxpayers, and coal companies already have access to years of reserves in any case. The rationale is very thin.