Headline Roundup • September 17th, 2017
Climate Deal Confusion
Summary from the AllSides News Team
On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal reported that senior Trump adviser Everett Eissenstat had announced that the White House was considering staying in the Paris climate agreement, a reversal from President Trump's June announcement that the U.S. would withdraw from the climate deal. In response to the Wall Street Journal report, the White House released a statement saying that there had been no change in its stance on the climate accord. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders also confirmed this sentiment on Twitter.
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The White House denied Saturday that the administration was backtracking on its long-held plans to withdraw from the Paris climate deal.
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