World's largest beer company announces it will buy 100% of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2025

(DTN) -- On the same day President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end the Clean Power Plan, the world's largest beer company announced it would buy 100% of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2025. Anheuser-Busch InBev will start renewable energy shifts in Mexico, which is home to the company's largest brewery. The company will be buying power from a major wind and solar project being built in Mexico. Trump's executive order actually states that it is in the national interest to produce "affordable, reliable, safe, secure and clean" energy whether it is from coal, natural gas, nuclear, water, or renewable energy. The executive order calls on agencies to remove rules that hinder the development of energy while rescinding several of former President Barack Obama's executive orders on clean energy. The White House also stops the production of federal climate action plans and strategies. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt must also begin reviewing the agency's Clean Power Plan and consider withdrawing it. The White House also disbanded a federal working group that created a per-ton economic cost of carbon dioxide emissions called the social cost of carbon. The biggest move in Trump's order is lifting a moratorium that would open up federal lands to coal leases, which could increase fossil fuel production. The move will bring back jobs to the coal industry, the president said. "We will unlock job-producing natural gas, oil and shale energy," the president said. "We will produce American coal to power American industry." The executive order likely reflects that the Trump administration won't be advancing any efforts to reduce emissions from other industries, such as agriculture. That would prevent livestock farmers, for instance, from having to report emissions from livestock. Rescinding the Clean Power Plan likely will still require a long legal battle once the rulemaking process begins at EPA. If successful, it also likely means the U.S. doesn't have a plan for showing reduction in carbon emissions agreed to by the Obama administration in the Paris climate agreement in 2015. The U.S. had committed to reduce emissions by at least 26% from 2005 levels by 2025. The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association along with 39 rural power cooperatives petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals in 2015 to reject the Clean Power Plan, leading to the current legal stay of the power rule by the Supreme Court.