Louisiana officials react to Trump's withdrawal from climate agreement
 

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As Louisiana and coastal states prepare for the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season, President Donald Trump announced plans to withdraw the U.S. pledge to reduce*emissions under the international Paris climate accord. Paricipating countries under the agreement ? which President Barack Obama joined in 2015 along with dozens other countries ? have committed to lowering emissions to shrink the global footprint on climate change.

It's another potential blow to the future of Louisiana's coast following Trump's proposed 2018 budget.*Trump ? who has said global warming "was*created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive" ? glimpsed potentially devastating rollbacks to Louisiana coastal protections in his budget plans, revealed last month.
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