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To read the executive summary of "The Legal and Economic Case Against the Paris Climate Treaty," please click here. To read the paper in its entirety, please click here. Press release: https://cei.org/content/cei-releases-new-report-serious-economic-and-legaL consequences-remaining-paris-climate Paper: https://cei.org/content/legal-and-economic-case-against-paris-climate-treaty Transcript of President Trump's speech in Harrisburg regarding the Paris Climate Treaty: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2G17/o4/29/remarks-presidenttrump-make-america-qreat-aqain-rally-harrisburq-pa Our government rushed to join international agreements where the United States pays the costs and bears the burdens, while other countries get the benefit and pay nothing. AUDIENCE: Booo THE PRESIDENT: This includes deals like the one-sided Paris Climate Accord, where the United States pays billions of dollars while China, Russia and India have contributed and will contribute nothing. AUDIENCE: Booo THE PRESIDENT: Does that remind you of the Iran deal? How about that beauty, right? On top of all of that, it's estimated that full compliance with the agreement ED_001523_00008168 could ultimately shrink America's GDP by $2.5 trillion over a 10-year period. That means factories and plants closing all over our country. Here we go again. Not with me, folks. (Applause.) Those are the facts, whether we like them or not. The dishonest media won't print them, won't report them, because the Washington media is part of the problem: their priorities are not my priorities and they're not your priorities, believe me. (Applause.) Their agenda is not your agenda. And I'll be making a big decision on the Paris accord over the next two weeks. (Applause.) And we will see what happens. But they're all part of a broken system that is profited from this global theft and plunder of American wealth at the expense of the American worker. We are not going to let other countries take advantage of us anymore. Because, from now on, it's going to be America first. (Applause.) Video: WSJ editorial: Springtime Out of Paris Staying in Obama's climate accord risks Trump's energy plans. President Trump and his advisers are debating whether to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accords, and the issue is coming to a head. If he doesn't want to topple his own economic agenda, Mr. Trump's wisest course is to walk away from a pact that President Obama never put before the U.S. Senate. Mr. Trump wants to revive growth and lift wages (see above), and a large part of that project is a bet on liberating U.S. energy production, notably natural gas and oil. Toward this end Mr. Trump issued an executive order in late March asking the Environmental Protection Agency to unwind Mr. Obama's Clean Power Plan. The Obama team finalized CPP in late 2015, and the rule was immediately challenged in court by 28 states. Notable among the Obama Administration's legal defenses is that CPP is essential to fulfill the U.S. commitments to reduce carbon emissions under Paris. By the end the White House cited Paris as the legal justification for all its climate ED_001523_00008168