President Trump will pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, he said this afternoon.
"The United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, but begin negotiations to re-enter either the Paris Accord or really an entirely new transaction on terms that are fair to the United States," the president said in the Rose Garden.
All implementation of the non-binding portions of the agreement will cease to be enforced by the United States, he said.
The decision fulfills a key promise Trump made on the campaign trail and overturns a major accomplishment by his predecessor, Barack Obama.
"The bottom line is that the Paris Accord is very unfair at the highest level to the United States," he said.
"I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris," Trump continued.
The United States officially entered the Paris agreement along with China on Sept. 3, 2016. »