Trump’s day-one actions on energy come as climate change-fueled fires ravage Southern California, following the globe’s hottest year on record.

Paris agreement is voluntary and allows nations to provide targets to cut their own emissions of greenhouse gases from the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas.

The United States would be one of only four countries outside the Paris Agreement, which is designed to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

Quitting the Paris Agreement triggers a cascade of real-world impacts and signals the beginning of an aggressive agenda to undo U.S. climate policy.

President Donald Trump will order the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, the White House said on Monday, once again placing the world's top historic emitter of greenhouse gas emissions outside of the global pact aimed at pushing nations to tackle climate change through domestic actions.

President Donald Trump is ordering the US to withdraw from the landmark Paris Agreement, launching another retreat in the fight against climate change by the world’s wealthiest nation.