President Donald Trump is planning to fulfill his campaign promise by
withdrawing the U.S. from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change,
three sources with direct knowledge of the president’s thinking told
Axios.
The president declined to join Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan
and the United Kingdom in committing to the Paris pledge to curb carbon
emissions during the G-7 Summit in Sicily last week. Although Trump
declined to announce whether or not he would remove the U.S. from the
Obama-era agreement while on his first overseas trip as president, he
tweeted Saturday, “I will make my final decision on the Paris Accord
next week!”
“One of the problems we have in government is we let one
person have so much power that he could do something that could cost
6 million jobs and nobody gets to vote on it—I think that’s outrageous.”
“President Trump has privately told multiple people, including EPA
Administrator Scott Pruitt, that he plans to leave the Paris Agreement
on climate change, according to three sources with direct knowledge,”
Jonathan Swan and Amy Harder wrote in their Axios report, noting that
“publicly, Trump’s position is that he has not made up his mind.”
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