US Sues California Over ‘Illegal’ Cap-and-Trade Pact With Quebec

The Trump administration is suing California over what it calls an “illegal” cap-and-trade agreement with the Canadian province of Quebec, alleging the Golden State is conducting its own “independent foreign policy in the area of greenhouse gas regulation.”

The lawsuit comes as the administration prepares to formally withdraw the United States from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, in which close to 200 countries pledged to reduce emissions claimed to contribute to global warming, The New York Times reports, citing unnamed sources.

“I withdrew the United States from the terrible, one-sided Paris Climate Accord. It was a total disaster for our country … a giant transfer of American wealth to foreign nations that are responsible for most of the world’s pollution,” President Donald Trump told a receptive audience Oct. 23 at the 9th Annual Shale Insight Conference in Pittsburgh.

“Our air right now and our water right now is as clean as it’s been in decades. Shutting down American producers … with excessive regulatory restrictions like you would not believe, while allowing foreign producers to pollute with impunity.”

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