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Editor's note
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As anticipated, President Trump, standing in the Rose Garden at the White House, yesterday announced plans to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Our panel of academics and scientists argue this decision will harm the U.S. and world in multiple ways
– economically, environmentally and diplomatically. Climate scientist and policy scholar Robert Kopp from Rutgers digs one level deeper and analyzes how bad (or not so bad) this dramatic change of course could be. In a counterpoint, Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash from the University of Washington suggest that “this withdrawal is a symbolic action with little substantive impact
on climate mitigation.” Meanwhile on the geopolitical stage, Rutgers-Newark’s Simon Reich concludes that “many may well claim that June 1, 2017 was the day that America’s global leadership ended.”
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Martin LaMonica
Deputy Editor, Environment & Energy Editor
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Top story
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On June 1, 2017, President Donald Trump announced that the United States will leave the Paris climate accord.
Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
Travis N. Rieder, Johns Hopkins University; Anthony Janetos, Boston University; Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research ; Marina v. N. Whitman, University of Michigan; Matthew Russell, Drake University
A panel of academics and scientists explain the damages to the Earth, the economy and US moral standing in the world by Trump's decision to abandon the Paris climate accord.
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Environment + Energy
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Robert Kopp, Rutgers University
A climate scientist and policy scholar sees three possible scenarios following Trump's plan to pull out of the Paris Agreement –
ranging from a small uptick in emissions to a global recession.
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Nives Dolsak, University of Washington; Aseem Prakash, University of Washington
The Trump administration has already sought to reverse several Obama-era climate change policies. Pro-environment people should now focus on threats to state climate actions.
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Wanyun Shao, Auburn University
As President Trump pulls the US out of the Paris climate accord, China is cutting pollution and dominating clean energy manufacturing. Now it can claim global leadership for those actions.
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Katherine Kiel, College of the Holy Cross
President Trump's budget would cut funding for Superfund, which cleans up the nation's most toxic sites, by nearly one-third. An economist explains how Superfund cleanups benefit local communities.
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Politics + Society
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Simon Reich, Rutgers University Newark
American presidents have spent a great deal of time proclaiming US leadership of the global system. The decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement undermines much of what they have said.
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Dan Birman, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Cyntoia Brown was just 16 years old when she shot and killed a man in 2004. Under Tennessee law, she won't be eligible for parole until she is 67 years old. Is such a harsh sentence constitutional?
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Robert Friedmann, Georgia State University
Because physical security can only do so much, communities have a role to play.
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Education
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Komla Dzigbede, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Laura Bronstein, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Many of the programs being cut in the Trump-DeVos education budget serve low-income families -- families that aren't likely to benefit from the budget's reallocation of funds toward school choice.
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Mary E. Pilgrim, Colorado State University; Thomas Dick, Oregon State University
By embracing a style beyond the typical classroom lecture, math education can serve all of our students better.
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Today’s Chart
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Tanya Golash-Boza
University of California, Merced
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