Trump appoints Carl Icahn as special adviser on regulatory reform

First job is appointing an SEC head

President-Elect Donald Trump has named billionaire investor Carl Icahn as special adviser on his planned overhaul of federal regulation.

Icahn, while not in an official government position, will be responsible for overseeing regulatory reform which Trump (pictured) has been keen to implement. The President-Elect has already threatened to revoke the Paris Agreement which Obama signed in 2015, cut funding to the Environmentaal Protection Agency (EPA) and deregulate the financial industry, including revoking the Dodd Frank Act. What will be the Trump effect on sustainable investing? Icahn, who has been a long-time critic of government regulation, most recently attacked the "crazy regulations" that the Environmental Pro...