Nick Loris of the Heritage Foundation outlines four reasons as to why Trump was right to pull out of the Paris Agreement.
- The Paris Agreement isn’t sound policy, it is an agreement to have an agreement.
- The Plan is costly—a cost that would have been felt by American taxpayers via higher energy costs.
- The Plan doesn’t actually work to curb global emissions, instead, it allows dirty economies to stay dirty.
The Paris Agreement, which committed the U.S. to drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, was a truly bad deal—bad for American taxpayers, American energy companies, and every single American who depends on affordable, reliable energy.
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