Paris Rejection Shows Administration's Conflicted Climate Change Stance

摘要

President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement is placing administration officials in a politically awkward position of having to explain seemingly conflicting climate policy stances, while refusing to confirm or deny whether officials see climate change as a problem. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt was asked multiple times at a June 2 White House press briefing where Trump stands on climate change, given his plan to leave the Paris deal, which is considered a landmark effort to prompt coordinated global efforts to address the issue.