by Kathryn Blackhurst PoliZette Forty self-described free-market organizations called on President Donald Trump, in a letter released Monday, to keep his campaign promise and withdraw the U.S. from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. Reports surfaced in April that Trump’s more politically moderate advisers were advocating the White House keep the nation committed to the Obama-era [...]
Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and forty other free-market and liberty organizations sent a letter to President Donald J. Trump enthusiastically supporting his campaign pledge to"withdraw fully from the Paris Climate Treaty and to stop all taxpayer funding of UN global warming programs." CEI ran an ad recently [...]
by John Schwartz New York Times WASHINGTON — The debate within the Trump administration over what to do about the Paris climate agreement has reached a critical phase, according to people familiar with the internal negotiations. The decision could hinge on the interpretation of a single phrase in a single provision of a document that [...]
On April 27, E&E Legal President Craig Richardson conducted an interview with InfoWars on the split in the White House over withdrawing from the Paris Treaty, as the President promised on the campaign trail. In addition, the interview covered renewable energy standards that thirty states now have on the books. Watch now.
by Jack Fitzpatrick Morning Consult Conservatives have found themselves at odds over the Paris climate agreement, disagreeing not only about whether the U.S. should stay in the international accord, but also whether the deal was a formal treaty, which would require the Senate to approve it. Declaring the Paris deal a treaty would make it [...]
by Evan Halper The Baltimore Sun Supporters of Donald Trump worried he has lost his appetite for poking the establishment would probably be reassured if he were to make good on his promise to swiftly kick to the curb the Paris agreement on climate change. But the promise to snub Paris is fast becoming a [...]
by Jennifer A Dlouhy and Nick Wadhams Bloomberg News An internal State Department memo says the Paris climate accord imposes few obligations on the U.S., bolstering the case for Trump administration officials who want to stay in the deal. The document, marked as a draft, makes no explicit recommendation about whether the U.S. should remain part of [...]
by Chris Horner & Marlo Lewis, Jr. Competitive Enterprise Institute This week, White House senior advisers will meet to discuss the future of U.S. involvement in the Paris Climate Treaty. During campaign speeches, President Trump repeatedly promised the American public that if elected, he would cancel U.S. participation in the Paris Climate Agreement and stop [...]
by Jennifer A Dlouhy Bloomberg News As President Donald Trump contemplates whether to make good on his campaign promise to yank the United States out of the Paris climate accord, an unlikely lobbying force is hoping to talk him out of it: oil and coal producers. A pro-Paris bloc within the administration has recruited energy [...]
by April McCullum Burlington Free Press A lawyer at the Vermont Attorney General's Office is claiming a broad exemption from transparency laws to defend the denial of a public records request. Chief Assistant Attorney General William Griffin argued in court last month that work at the Attorney General's Office generally is exempt from state public-records laws, unlike [...]
