Wilbur Ross: Trump’s an ‘Environmentalist; He’s Very Pro-Environment’

‘What the president is not doing is saying he’s not going to try to improve climate’

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ROSS: "There’s nothing that the withdrawal requires us to do that we don’t want to do. The country has actually reduced its emissions quite a little bit, largely due to the advent of natural gas as a replacement for higher pollute of fossil fuels. So the President hasn’t changed any of that. He is an environmentalist. I’ve known him for a long time. He’s very pro-environment."
LAUER: "How can you say he’s an environmentalist when he’s rolled back many of the initiatives of the Obama Administration, and now he’s basically taken a 180-degree turn from what the Obama Administration did in signing this Paris accord?"
ROSS: "Well, you’re taking as the given that the Obama Administration was right and any other action was wrong."

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