House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will lead a group of Democratic lawmakers to a United Nations conference on climate change less than a month after the Trump administration began formally withdrawing the US from the Paris climate accord
The House speaker on Saturday announced she will lead the congressional delegation to the UN COP25 environmental summit"to combat the existential threat of our time: the climate crisis." Pelosi did not specify which dates the group will attend the conference, which takes place from December 2-13 in Madrid.
Read MoreThe State Department also announced Saturday that it will send a deputy assistant secretary to lead US officials from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture and the Treasury Department to the summit. The statement reiterated that the administration notified the UN on November 4 to officially begin the US exit from the Paris agreement.
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