Trump's executive order called for an immediate withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. The agreement requires one year notice, but there's room for interpretation.
When Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the climate agreement in 2017, the move reverberated around the globe. Nearly 200 nations had committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions under the pact when it was created in 2015, and they had set ambitious targets to keep global temperature rise well below 2°C, and ideally below 1.5°C.
Trump’s day-one actions on energy come as climate change-fueled fires ravage Southern California, following the globe’s hottest year on record.
With the US out of the tent, the rest of the world can get on with climate action without Trump’s corrosive influence.
The White House announces a "national energy emergency" to reverse US climate regulations and boost oil and gas.
President Trump again withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, a worldwide pact that aims to fight global warming. CBS News national environmental correspondent David Schechter reports on the move and its impact.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the United States to again withdraw the United States from the landmark Paris climate agreement.
Media Billionaire and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s philanthropy arm set to fund the US’s contribution to the U.N. climate body’s budget after Donald Trump withdrew American contribution to the Paris climate agreement,
If Donald Trump believes the Paris Agreement is unfair, then he can choose to not be a party to it and, at the same time, choose to financially contribute to developing countries that are willing to w
Silicon Valley loudly criticized President Donald Trump when he quit the climate accord in his first term. This time? Crickets.
That stat, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is almost certainly less than the true number of lives lost. Heat-related deaths are notoriously undercounted — and extreme heat is the most deadly form of extreme weather, and particularly affects Black communities too.