climate-negotiations

Pruitt’s G-7 Escape And Separate G-6 Statement Heighten U.S. Isolation

This weekend, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt left the G-7 environmental ministers meeting after the first day. Shortly thereafter, the environmental ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the EU released a communique on environmental issues, including one separate chapter on the climate crisis, furthering the G-6 - Trump rift which began Taormina, Italy at the G-7 summit at the end of May.

Sierra Club on Trump’s Paris Withdrawal: “One of the Most Ignorant and Dangerous” Actions of Any President

Today, Donald Trump announced he intends to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement.

4:30 PM ET PARIS AGREEMENT PRESS BRIEFING

An expert panel of advocates from major American environmental and civil society nonprofits will respond to President Trump’s Rose Garden press conference, where he is expected to announce whether his administration will honor the United States’ commitment to the global Paris Climate Agreement.