Trump says he won’t take climate action because it threatens corporate profits: ‘I’m not willing to do that’

Posted on AllSides July 1st, 2019
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide is at a record high, Europe is in the midst of a hellish heat wave, and extreme weather is ravaging large swaths of the globe, but President Donald Trump dismissed the need for climate action during the G20 summit in Japan on Saturday and falsely claimed that air and water in the U.S. are the “cleanest” they have ever been.

Trump told reporters during a press conference Saturday morning that he is not ignoring the threat of the climate crisis, but he doesn’t want to take action...

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https://www.alternet.org/2019/06/im-not-willing-to-do-that-trump-says-he-wont-take-climate-action-because-it-threatens-corporate-profits/

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