Damn the torpedoes! Trump ditches a crucial climate treaty as he moves to dismantle America’s climate protections

At the same time, Americans have been facing worsening storms, wildfires and deadly heat waves.

By: Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: January 10, 2026

Words: 1,285

Last Updated: 17 hours, 13 minutes ago

By Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University

On Jan. 7, 2026, President Donald Trump declared that he would officially pull the United States out of the world’s most important global treaty for combating climate change. He said it was because the treaty ran “contrary to the interests of the United States.”

His order didn’t say which U.S. interests he had in mind.

Americans had just seen a year of widespread flooding from extreme …

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