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EPA Chief: Paris Climate Accord 'Just A Bad Deal'

On @ThisWeekABC, new EPA chief Scott Pruitt slams Paris climate agreement as "a bad deal" https://t.co/SAi4LkWMUT pic.twitter.com/UIQi18D6yo— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) March 26, 2017 The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency reiterated his staunch opposition to the landmark Paris climate deal on Sunday and promised to begin work to roll back a hallmark environmental initiative of the Obama administration. In an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Scott Pruitt blasted the Paris climate accord ― an international agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions ― calling the effort “a bad deal.” “You know, what was wrong with Paris was not just that it was, you know, failed to be treated as a treaty, but China and India, the largest producers of CO2 internationally, got away scot-free,” Pruitt said during the segment on ABC’s “This Week.” “We’ve penalized ourselves through lost jobs while China and India didn’t take steps to address the issue internationally.

 

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