But how broad will these impacts be?
"Pittsburgh and other cities know that fighting climate change will not only save our planet, but save lives", Peduto said in a statement.
The Washington Post noted that Scott Pruitt's comments on the Paris accord didn't come as a surprise, as he has always been seen as a "huge influencer" behind Trump's recent move to pull out of the agreement, and as being instrumental in reversing a lot of the Obama administration's previous environmental reforms. That target is precisely the goal of the Paris accord. The administration is working to dismantle former President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, which is meant to regulate electricity plants and help the USA meet its promise to cut emissions by more than a quarter from 2005 levels.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, also on Sunday's "Meet The Press", was one of the members of the administration to push President Trump to exit the agreement, and firmly defended the president's decision Sunday morning, including repeating his assertion that other nations around the world applauded the USA previously signing on because "it put us at an economic disadvantage".
The country under the Obama administration in 2015 had pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28% by 2025 as a part of the agreement.
The spokeswoman's comments demonstrated China's ambition to take the lead on climate change. "That's the reason it put us at an economic disadvantage internationally". Those pledges would be ratcheted up every five years.
Whatever the industry, companies will be reluctant to change plans based exclusively on the withdrawal from the climate agreement because the pendulum could swing back.
Based on that estimate, the additional emissions caused by the U.S. failing to meet its Paris commitment would cause about US$100 billion ($141.2b) of damage to the global economy - not an insignificant number, but small in comparison to the size of the global economy. But it also galvanized defiant state and local government leaders in many blue states throughout this country.
"Americans are not walking away from the Paris Climate Agreement; just the opposite-we are forging ahead", Michael Bloomberg said.
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The main damage will have been to U.S. leadership, in the clean energy industry and in the world at large.
Let's be clear: the Paris Agreement was never about the environment. Perhaps, despite the efforts of China and Europe, it will fall apart without the US.
However, many economists think Paris would be roughly a trade-off - fewer jobs in polluting industries would be offset by more in renewable energy.
It's the 26 percent reduction goal, itself non-binding, that Mr. Trump has said that the United States will no longer take steps to meet, during his administration.
In terms of the agreement's benefits to the world's climate, Trump claimed they would be minimal.
"Sea-level projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), by our research group and by others, indicate that global average sea level at the end of the century would likely be about 1-2.5 feet (0.3-0.76m) higher under the Paris path than in 2000".
The new group is trying to determine if it can submit a greenhouse-gas emission reduction goal to the United Nations alongside those submitted by nearly all the world's sovereign nations. Our withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord is a forfeiture of that leadership and undermines our ability to shape the solutions to this global challenge.
"It did not serve their future economic interest either", he added.
Trump's gutsy decision puts America on the path to becoming the global energy superpower in the decades to come and puts American workers first.
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