EPA Chief: Paris Climate Accord 'Just A Bad Deal'

The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency reiterated his staunch opposition to the landmark Paris climate deal on Sunday and promised to begin work to roll back a hallmark environmental initiative of the Obama administration. In an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Scott Pruitt blasted the Paris climate accord ― an international agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions ― calling the effort “a bad deal.” “You know, what was wrong with Paris was not just that it was, you know, failed to be treated as a treaty, but China and India, the largest producers of CO2 internationally, got away scot-free,” Pruitt said during the segment on ABC’s “This Week.” “We’ve penalized ourselves through lost jobs while China and India didn’t take steps to address the issue internationally. So Paris was just a bad deal, in my estimation,” he added. On @ThisWeekABC, new EPA chief Scott Pruitt slams Paris climate agreement as "a bad deal" https://t.co/SAi4LkWMUT pic.twitter.com/UIQi18D6yo— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) March 26, 2017 China is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet, followed by the United States, the European Union as a bloc and then India. Pruitt also said President Donald Trump would begin work to reverse former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which regulates emissions from coal-fired power plants, by signing an executiv...
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