Ahead of President Trump’s expected announcement that the United States was officially withdrawing from the Paris climate change agreement, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared that New Yorkers would “take matters into our own hands” and he would “sign an executive order maintaining New York City’s commitment to the Paris Agreement.”
In his final year in office, President Obama took it upon himself to commit the U.S. to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 26% from 2005 levels and handing over billions of dollars to the U.N. President Obama managed to bypass Congress by implementing the agreement via executive order and refusing to call it a formal treaty.
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