Paris Climate Agreement
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Climate ChangeEconomicsEnvironment/Energy
Trade ‘Trumps’ Climate In Europe
by H. Sterling Burnett March 1, 2019Despite the European Union (EU) saying just eight months ago it would not sign any trade agreements with countries not party to the Paris climate treaty—a pledge aimed particularly at the United States after President Donald Trump started the process of withdrawing from the agreement—it seems the EU has reconsidered its stance. Climate Home News is reporting the EU is in the process of negotiating two trade agreements with the United States.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
Paris Participants Dropping Like Flies
by H. Sterling Burnett August 24, 2018Concerning the Paris climate agreement, the relevant question is, not who still supports it and will actually meet their greenhouse gas reduction commitments, rather it is what country will be next out the door.
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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/EnergyInternet/Telecom
The Hidden War: Trump’s Battle Against Regulation
by Liam Sigler July 25, 2018Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, once said “the chief business of the American people is business.”
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Paris Jockeying for Competitive Position, Moral Superiority Begins
by H. Sterling Burnett May 28, 2018Barely two years into the Paris climate agreement and it is falling apart as countries jockey for a position of competitive economic advantage, and claimed moral superiority.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
Insincerity, Hypocrisy, and Hype Rife in Bonn Climate Negotiations
by H. Sterling Burnett December 15, 2017An annual two-week luxury climate negotiation excursion for nearly 25,000 government diplomats, bureaucrats, and environmentalists in Bonn, Germany ended on November 17.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
The Green Press Distorts What Happened at the Climate Summit
by David Wojick December 1, 2017Earlier we looked at how the lefty New York Times, a green press role model, misdescribed what the Bonn climate summit was going to be about.
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Environment/Energy
Virginia goes Don Quixote, Double Down on Renewables and CO2 Reductions, Hurting Poor Most
by Paul Driessen November 18, 2017Leaving aside the unconstitutional character of states signing onto an international agreement that has been repudiated by President Trump, there are major practical problems with all of this.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
We Should be Glad the US is Out
by Paul Driessen and David Legates June 26, 2017States that claim they’re committed to Paris do nothing for the climate and ill serve their citizens.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Pruitt Puts America First at G7 Environment Summit
by H. Sterling Burnett June 13, 2017Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt attended the G7 Environment Minister’s Summit in Bologna, Italy, making it clear the U.S. takes a backseat to no country in protecting the environment, but making it equally clear, the Paris climate agreement was neither the only way nor even a good way to protect the environment and thus the U.S. was withdrawing from the treaty.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyLegal Affairs
Trump’s Paris Pull Out Dodges UN Driven Legal Bullet
by H. Sterling Burnett June 11, 2017By withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate agreement, President Donald Trump may have avoided myriad legal efforts to force the administration to restrict fossil fuel development and use in the United States.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Trump Rejects Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
by Nancy Thorner and Ed Ingold June 7, 2017President Trump kept his campaign promise to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement, but the fight for withdrawal was a difficult one.
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Climate ChangeHealth Care
The Paris Climate Agreement, Not “Climate Change,” Is the Threat; Trump’s Pull-out Is Good for the Poor and for Our Health
by Jane M. Orient, M.D. June 6, 2017A consortium of medical societies is echoing former President Obama’s dire warning that climate change is the biggest threat facing the world and public health.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
Signs of Sanity Shock the Green World
by Viv Forbes June 4, 2017The final step will be UN-CLEXIT – withdrawal from all UN climate agreements and obligations, and defunding the government climate “research” and propaganda industry.