Trump Can Now Exit the Paris Accord. It's Still a Bad Idea
When President Trump visited Pittsburgh last month, he complained about how the Paris climate treaty was unfair to the United States. \u201cI withdrew the United States from the terrible, one-sided climate accord, it was a total disaster for our country,\u201d Trump told a cheering crowd at a natural gas conference. \u201cThey were taking away our wealth. It was almost as though it was meant to hurt the competitiveness\u2014really, competitiveness of the United States.