The Paris Accord, meant to join the world in a massive effort to stop or slow global warming was signed by nearly 200 nations. The only hold outs were Iran, Yemen and Libya. The US has just joined that list.
Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis, reports on the United States’ withdrawal from the Global Climate Alliance under President Donald Trump. This action aligns the U.S., the world’s largest oil producer,
Joining Iran, Libya and Yemen, newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump on his first day in office signed an executive order pulling Washington out of the Paris climate change agreement.
In his first 24 hours in office, US President Donald Trump for a second time repealed the United States’ participation in the Paris Agreement. The environmental pact binds 196 nations to a goal ...
The Arab Spring began in Tunisia and spread to Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Bahrain, under the unifying slogan: “The people want to bring down the regime.” While some countries experienced ...
Among President Donald Trump's flurry of Jan. 20 executive orders was one promising to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Click to read.
America is now among just four nations including Libya, Yemen and Iran not engaged in working toward limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Trump, who signed the order at Capital One ...
To the editor: Our past and current president has accomplished quite a bit in his first days in office, much of which I find to be quite disturbing. For this reader, our withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord ranks near the top of his many questionable ...
Weeks later, newly installed US President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, joining company with Libya, Yemen and Iran. As the effects of climate change ...
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The United States will join Libya, Yemen and Iran as nations that are not part of the Paris Agreement. As the United States exits the global stage of climate action, some experts are concerned that other nations may follow suit and that the United States ...
Zakaria Zubeidi, a former leader of a Palestinian militant group jailed for attacks that killed several Israelis, is to be released Thursday as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.