On Tuesday, the Trump Administration State Department issued a memorandum formally withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, following President Donald Trump’s executive order on the matter.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, the memo is one of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s first actions after his confirmation, which was approved unanimously by the U.S. Senate shortly after President Trump’s inauguration on Monday. The order instructs the State Department’s mission to the United Nations (UN) to begin the withdrawal process effective immediately.
“President Trump is committed to pursuing an American First policy agenda,” the memo declares. “The Paris Agreement prompted restrictions on America’s ability to harvest vast natural resources and constraints on the American economy through oppressive domestic regulations.”
“This action is in keeping with the United States’ intention to become the world’s most dominant energy producer, cut costly and burdensome regulations, and unleash the American economy,” the memo continues.
The Paris Climate Accords have been a contentious political issue in the United States since President Obama first brought the nation into the agreement in 2015. President Trump then withdrew the country from the agreement in 2017 during his first term, before Joe Biden then re-entered the United States into the deal in 2021.
The agreement has been criticized as being harmful to domestic energy production in the name of combatting so-called “global warming.” President Trump campaigned on reviving American energy production, with the goal of returning the nation to a status of “energy dominance,” where it is not only independent of foreign energy supplies, but capable of producing enough energy to sell sources of energy to other countries around the world.
“I’m immediately withdrawing from the unfair, one-sided Paris climate Accord ripoff,” said President Trump on Monday after his inauguration. “The United States will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity.”
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