How the Trump administration’s climate math doesn’t add up

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By Kate YoderApr 10, 2026, 4:45 am122 ptsTrending
When President Donald Trump talks about climate change, he often recycles one well-known, shaky argument: that doing anything about it will be a financial disaster. After pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, he said it was costing the U.S. “trillions of dollars that other countries were not paying.”…

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