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Eliot Engel: “If we don't meet those commitments, or as is rumored, if there is a debate in the White House that somehow we might even…”

On the recordMarch 27, 2017
If we don't meet those commitments, or as is rumored, if there is a debate in the White House that somehow we might even pull out of the Paris Accords, it is going to fundamentally affect not just the climate science and diplomacy, but it will affect American credibility.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel warns that withdrawing from the Paris Accords would harm U.S. credibility on climate issues.

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