US Politics in Trump era
Publisher: New Republic
Author: Kate Aronoff
21 Jan 2020
The New U.S. Trade Deal Is Climate Sabotage
If this week is the “Super Bowl” of trade policy—as Republican Senator Rob Portman called it Wednesday—the planet won’t be getting a ring. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the Nafta replacement that passed 89-10 through the Senate on Thursday, never mentions the climate crisis. It will do plenty to fuel it.