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Trump Is Pulling US Out of Paris Climate Deal: Sources (axios.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: President Trump has made his decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the decision. Details on how the withdrawal will be executed are being worked out by a small team including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. They're deciding on whether to initiate a full, formal withdrawal -- which could take 3 years -- or exit the underlying United Nations climate change treaty, which would be faster but more extreme. Pulling out of Paris is the biggest thing Trump could do to unravel Obama's climate legacy. It sends a combative signal to the rest of the world that America doesn't prioritize climate change and threatens to unravel the ambition of the entire deal. News agency Reuters has corroborated the report with its own source. Further reading on Politico (which has also corroborated the news) and BBC. Update: Trump Announces US Withdrawal From Paris Climate Accord.
You live next to a coal plant for 20 years and I'll live next to a nuclear plant for 20 years.
We'll see who's in better shape at the end.
What troll gave you the off-topic mod? Actually I came by to see if anyone had asked explicitly if trying to destroy the planet should count as grounds for impeachment? I actually think it might fit under "high crimes or misdemeanors" of some sort, but the fabulous founders couldn't cover EVERY base.
Unfortunately the real barrier to solving the #PresidentTweety problem is the so-called Republican congress-critters who put party politics, private profits, and personal power ahead of such trivialities as country and Constitution. Don't laugh, but I started calling them because I thought it would do more good than talking to a brick wall. ROFLMAO. All the way to our funeral.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Obama's "climate legacy" being: "I'll do what my big donors and lobbyists want me to do, and I don't care about the economic consequences because I'll be long out of office and have a cool few hundred million in the bank." That "climate legacy"?
I think that was rather a big factor in the last election.
Good!
The economy is nothing but a gigantic mechanism of distributing wealth. How is changing the distribution "sucking" anything out? Whether it's fat pigs buying jewelry, military buying bombs, or poor people buying food, it's all supporting production and employing workers.
A president resigning or being impeached and removed from office would not be a constitutional crisis
Correct.
A constitutional crisis would be when something happens that a solution isn't provided for.
Yes, like when the POTUS wins the election because of influence from a foreign nation. Or when the POTUS profits financially from money spent by foreign nations in his properties. Or when the POTUS fires the FBI chief who was tasked with investigating what he did that is widely believed to be in violation of the constitution. Or when the POTUS gives away secret information to a foreign power. Those are all constitutional crises, and given his track record we'll see another one by the end of next week at the very latest.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Thankfully, that's not the major aspect of his climate-change legacy. His bigger legacy is likely going to be the increased grants and government loans for alternative energy endeavors. He's not the greatest president for environmental efforts (that would probably be Nixon so far), but given the powers granted to a president, Obama did OK.