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Wed Mar 29, 2017, 08:19 AM Mar 2017

Selfless, Noble ExxonMobil (So GREEN!) Urges President Shitstain Not To Scrap Paris Accord

Washington (AFP) - Energy giant Exxon Mobil has asked the Trump administration not to scrap US participation in the landmark Paris climate agreement, running counter to White House moves on carbon emissions.

The news came as President Donald Trump on Tuesday unveiled a new executive order that could roll back some of the previous Democratic administration's policies aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

In a March 22 letter to Trump energy advisor G David Banks, Exxon's head of environmental policy and planning, Peter Trelenberg, praised the 2015 Paris Agreement as the first to tackle emissions by both the developed world and developing countries such as China and India.

China is the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter and India could overtake the United States as the world's second-largest by mid-century, Trelenberg said in the letter. The US is poised to compete in energy markets while abiding by the agreement's calls for emissions reductions in part due to its increasing reliance on natural gas, which produces energy with fewer emissions, Trelenberg said.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/exxon-mobil-urges-trump-stay-paris-climate-accord-230342103.html

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