Hoyer: 'Abdication of American Leadership' Not To Back Climate Deal

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House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., called President Donald Trump's refusal to affirm the Paris climate agreement "a striking abdication of American leadership" in a tweet on Monday.

Trump did not participate with his G7 counterparts in promising to back the 195-nation Paris climate accord, The Hill reported Monday.

"The United States worked hard to bring other nations onboard in 2015 to pledge limits to the carbon pollution that is changing weather patterns and dirtying the air that our children breathe," Hoyer said in a statement. "Now, this President is willfully undermining America's global role, which puts Americans' safety and economic security at risk."

http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/House-Democratic-Whip-Steny-Hoyer-Paris-climate-agreement-President-Donald-Trump/2017/05/29/id/792914/

no, Steny.

The lack of leadership was Obama's as he failed to get the Senate to approve and snuck in the accord.