I am writing in response to Dorothy Lewis’ letter (June 6) concerning President Trump’s pulling the United States out of the Paris Accord. The amazing pictures sent back to us on Earth by the Apollo astronauts illustrate vividly why our futures depend on trying as hard as we can to live up to the hard-won […]
Paris Accord
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Climate affects the whole world
How far is Paris, France, from Paris, Maine? When he announced that he would pull the U.S. out of the climate accord, President Trump said that he was elected to promote cities such as Youngstown and Detroit, and “not Paris.” The Paris accord, of course, isn’t just about Paris, France. It is also about Paris, […]
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Trump did the right thing
The hysteria from the left as a result of President Trump exiting the Paris climate accord is absurd. Everything they say is anti-Trump and hardly a word in support of the agreement. President Trump took the U.S. out of the accord because: • The American taxpayers would have been on the hook for $3 trillion […]
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Trump’s climate change move draws sharp reactions in Maine
Calling it “a devastating blow,” the head of the Natural Resources Council of Maine denounced President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of an international climate agreement Thursday. Lisa Pohlmann, the environmental group’s executive director, said the move “could jeopardize global efforts to avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.” Maine’s congressional delegation had […]
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Climate accord (yawn) settles … what?
Saving the planet has never been so easy. The Paris climate talks concluded in a rousing round of self-congratulation over an agreement that, we are told, is the first step toward keeping Earth habitable. If generating headlines and press releases about making history were the metric for anything, Paris might be as consequential — if […]