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Good morning.

Here’s what you need to know:

• “The war on coal is over.”

Years before he was the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt opposed the Clean Power Plan, the Obama-era policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

Now he’s declaring victory, ready to sign a proposal today to repeal the plan. Doing so would make the U.S. less likely to fulfill its obligations under the Paris climate agreement, which President Trump has vowed to abandon.

Many states are already shifting away from coal power — which with natural gas is responsible for about one-third of America’s carbon dioxide emissions — for economic reasons.