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All but two countries are in the Paris climate agreement. The U.S. could be the third.

The Washington Post: Reports have spread that Trump will pull out of the Paris Climate agreement, a 2015 U.N. accord that aims to combat climate change.

This move will be one of several Obama-era environmental milestones that Trump has dismantled. And all the while, a new study shows global temperatures might be rising faster than expected.

Leaving the agreement will displace the U.S. from a stance of global leadership and place it alongside just two non-participating countries: Syria, which is in the midst of a civil war, and Nicaragua, who refused to join because the Paris Agreement didn’t go far enough. Even countries such as Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which are among the poorest in the world and were struggling with an Ebola epidemic at the time, have signed on.

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