Trump to promote withdrawing U.S. from Paris climate accord: source
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday is expected to affirm plans to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, a source said, less than two weeks before he can officially start the process.
Trump is slated to speak at 3:30 p.m. (1930 GMT) at the Shale Insight conference in Pittsburgh and is expected to tout surging U.S. natural gas and crude oil production, his efforts to roll back regulations on energy industries and pulling the United States out of the 2015 international climate agreement.
Trump, a longtime opponent of the Paris agreement, vowed in the 2016 presidential election campaign that he would “cancel” it.
“He is going to mention Paris,” a source who read the speech said on the condition of anonymity. “It will be the same points brought up in the past. As far as (Trump) is concerned, he has withdrawn already.”
Trump often boasts at rallies and speeches that he has already pulled the country out of the pact. But the first day he can officially start the process has not yet arrived. According to the terms of the agreement, Trump can submit a letter on Nov. 4 to the United Nations to start the one-year clock to withdraw the United States formally from global climate pact.
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Whatever it takes (impeachment, election) we need a new president. Planet Earth needs to see him removed too.
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