Trump’s reported plan to ditch Paris climate deal is all about coal

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A tweet Wednesday from President Trump indicated that he will be announcing his decision whether to stay in the Paris agreement on climate change “over the next few days,” but multiple media outlets have reported that senior officials at the White House have indicated a withdrawal is imminent. There’s always a chance that Trump will change his mind, but if the president does spearhead a Paris exit, it will be because of one thing: coal. The Paris agreement, signed by 195 members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and ratified by 147, went into effect in November with the aim of tackling the global challenge of a warming Earth.

June 01, 2017 at 02:01PM

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