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Trump’s Latest Step Backward for the Climate

Op-eds & Essays by Jason Bordoff • August 22, 2018

Writing in the New York Times, CGEP Director Jason Bordoff argues that the damage done...

Writing in the New York Times, CGEP Director Jason Bordoff argues that the damage done by the Trump administration’s reversal of Mr. Obama’s climate policies is less a sharp rise in carbon emissions than it is the loss of American leadership and missed opportunity to save future generations from climate change’s severe impacts.

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Trump’s Latest Step Backward for the Climate

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