Trump administration poised to make Paris climate exit official
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The Trump administration will file paperwork with the United Nations as early as Monday to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, marking the first formal step in a one-year process to exit the global pact to fight climate change.
The move would leave the world's largest historic greenhouse gas emitter as the only country outside the accord, a decision President Donald Trump promised early in his term to unfetter America's domestic oil, gas and coal industries.
"What we won't do is punish the American people while enriching foreign polluters, Trump said at a shale gas industry conference in Pennsylvania on October 23, referring to his planned withdrawal from the agreement.
