OPINION:
I believe President Trump is making a mistake by withdrawing us from the Paris Agreement via executive order (“Trump announces U.S. will leave Paris Climate Accord for second time,” Web, Jan. 21). A future president could simply put us back in the same way, as President Biden did after President Trump first withdrew us.
I recommend that this time, President Trump send the agreement over to the Senate, and say, “Senators, this is a treaty. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and all of us swore an oath of office to obey and protect it. That Constitution requires that any and all treaties into which the United States enters be approved by at least two-thirds of you. Therefore, hold public hearings on these climaye accords. Tell the American people — and me — precisely what it would do to us, good and bad, and at what cost. Then take a public, recorded vote on whether to approve it.”
That would settle the issue once and for all.
THOMAS M. CRAWFORD
Laurel, Maryland
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