{"id":326409,"date":"2017-09-17T08:17:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T07:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/white-house-rejects-reports-about-us-staying-in-paris-climate-deal\/"},"modified":"2017-09-17T08:17:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T07:17:37","slug":"white-house-rejects-reports-about-us-staying-in-paris-climate-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/white-house-rejects-reports-about-us-staying-in-paris-climate-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"White House rejects reports about US staying in Paris climate deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The administration of US President Donald Trump has reaffirmed its decision to pull out of a global pact to fight climate change known as the Paris Climate Agreement, rejecting reports suggesting Washington was reversing course.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The White House announcement, which would deepen a rift with American allies, came following reports that the Trump administration was weighing a policy shift on the 2015 pact at a Montreal meeting with environment ministers from 30 countries on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been no change in the United States\u2019 position on the Paris agreement,\u201d said White House Deputy Press Secretary Lindsay Walters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the President has made abundantly clear, the United States is withdrawing unless we can re-enter on terms that are more favorable to our country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In June, Trump announced that he would\u00a0pull the United States out of the 2015 global agreement to fight climate change, characterizing the decision as &#8220;a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/09\/17\/535444\/Trump-administration-rejects-reports-about-US-staying-in-Paris-climate-deal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The administration of US President Donald Trump has reaffirmed its decision to pull out of a global pact to fight climate change known as the Paris Climate Agreement, rejecting reports suggesting Washington was reversing course. The White House announcement, which would deepen a rift with American allies, came following reports that the Trump administration was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-326409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}