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President Donald Trump plans to make good on his campaign vow to withdraw the United States from a global pact to fight climate change, a source briefed on the decision said on Wednesday, a move that promises to deepen a rift with U.S. allies.
White House officials cautioned that details were still being hammered out and that, although close, the decision on withdrawing from the 195-nation accord - agreed to in Paris in 2015 - was not finalized.
[...] The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Trump was working out the terms of the planned withdrawal with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, an oil industry ally and climate change doubter.
[...] The CEOs of Dow Chemical Co, ExxonMobil Corp, Unilever NV and Tesla Inc all urged Trump to remain in the agreement, with Tesla's Elon Musk threatening to quit White House advisory councils of which he is a member if the president pulls out.
Source: Reuters
On Twitter, Trump indicated that an announcement was coming soon.
"I will be announcing my decision on the Paris Accord over the next few days," he wrote. "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
[...] Opponents of the climate deal were concerned after White House economic advisor Gary Cohn told reporters that the president was "evolving on the issue" during his trip overseas.
His daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner reportedly channelled support for the deal behind the scenes at the White House, encouraging climate change activists that Trump might change his mind. Trump's Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the former Exxon CEO, also supported remaining in the treaty.
Source: Brietbart
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 01 2017, @12:48PM (1 child)
New, green capitalists will eat old, smoky capitalists - that is how it always happens.
I never understood how could anyone think that keeping the things old way would bring in more profits then changing everything. Going environmentalist resonates so good with planned obsolescence mantra, because every n years you will be forced to upgrade every thingamajig to more environmentally friendly thingamajig, including some very heavy, very expensive stuff. And that is so much job, and so much profit! Given an external unattainable goal without an exit condition (like "War on ... something"), economy can really thrive indefinitely. On the contrary, if economy only plays with itself, it gets hick-ups. So there really has to be a "follow the leader" game, a mission & vision, etc. Kennedy did it with space program, Reagan did that with his armament program, but it is all dwarfed by even greater endeavors which were taken in late XIX century with first large global infrastructure projects around the world - steamboat shipbuilding, railroads, telegraph and telephone, ... Today if we chose to stop the global warming, it would be a huge boost for economy similar to that from late XIX century, because we have to change almost everything, it is almost like as building it anew. New empires wait to be founded. It is very shortsighted to keep oneself out of it just to protect some old sunken investments.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday June 01 2017, @02:57PM
The exit condition is in fact well-defined: Reduce global average temperature to approximately what it was about 10 years ago, then go for carbon neutrality after that.
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