Trump Promises to Cut Environmental Regulation

May 27, 2016, 12:01 AM

Donald Trump promised Thursday to scale back President Obama's environmental regulations and called for faster development of U.S. energy resources in his most sweeping remarks on energy policy since entering the presidential race.

"The government should not pick winners and losers, instead it should remove obstacles to exploration," the presumptive GOP nominee told attendees of an oil industry conference in North Dakota.