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Congressman Bill Johnson (R-Marietta) released the following statement after President Trump announced the United States will be pulling out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change:

“Under the Paris Climate Agreement, communities and industries in Eastern and Southeastern that depend on fossil fuels would have been disproportionately harmed. Meanwhile, under the same agreement, other countries like China and India are allowed to increase their coal consumption, while here at home we would have handcuffed ourselves for no economic benefit. This non-binding pact represented an ‘America second’ strategy, and I'm glad President Trump withdrew the United States from this agreement.”