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Donald Trump pulls US out of Paris climate agreement

The US abandons global effort to stop climate change.

The US was already the biggest historical emitter of planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions and the the world’s leading oil and gas producer, giving it big sway in global climate negotiations. Exiting the Paris agreement “is in clear defiance of scientific realities and shows an administration cruelly indifferent to the harsh climate change impacts that people in the United States and around the world are experiencing,” Rachel Cleetus, policy director and lead economist for the Climate and Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said in an emailed statement. It might not seem like a big difference in temperature, but climate change has already become severe enough to supercharge weather-related disasters across the US including wildfires still burning around Los Angeles that leveled entire communities this month.

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