President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday that lays out a new plan for the Environmental Protection Agency.

The White House says the plan will put the economy above climate change issues. However many Democrats and environmental groups are taking serious issue with the idea.

A White House official says protecting American Jobs is more important than regulating climate change and this is what the executive order addresses.

The president is expected to pass the order on Tuesday.

It will address former President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan initiative, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt says.

"His clean power plant is something that the Supreme Court has said is likely unlawful. There has been a stay against this clean power plant. Our action starting on Tuesday, shortly after the executive order, will make sure that whatever steps we take in the future will be pro-growth, pro-environment. Within the framework of the clean air act. And it will be legal," Pruitt said.

Trump, who has called global warming a "hoax" invented by the Chinese, has repeatedly criticized the power-plant rule and others as an attack on American workers and the struggling U.S. coal industry. The contents of the order were outlined to reporters in a sometimes tense briefing with a senior White House official, whom aides insisted speak without attribution despite Trump's criticism of the use of unnamed sources in the news media.

Trump has been vocal in the past about his views on climate change, such as this tweet from 2012.

Democrat politicians aren't happy about the idea of backing off on climate change issues.

California Senator Kamala Harris tweeted:

Former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy accused the Trump administration of wanting "us to travel back to when smokestacks damaged our health and polluted our air, instead of taking every opportunity to support clean jobs of the future."

"This is not just dangerous; it's embarrassing to us and our businesses on a global scale to be dismissing opportunities for new technologies, economic growth, and U.S. leadership," she said in a statement.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.