Article snippet: 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. "So we are getting out, but we are starting to negotiate and we’ll see if we can make a deal that’s fair." 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. Trump's speech in the rose garden centered on what he argued is the negative economic impact of the accord, calling it a bad deal for America. "The bottom line is that the Paris Accord is very unfair at the highest level to the United States," he said. Referring to the Paris deal as a "massive redistribution of United States wealth" to other countries, the president made the case that the deal fundamentally disadvantages the U.S. economically, relative to other countries. "I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris," Trump continued. "I promised I would exit or renegotiate any deal which fails to serve America's interests." He said the Paris accord would "undermine our economy, hamstring our workers, weaken our sovereignty [... Link to the full article to read more