CABINET/ENERGY/TRUMP PEOPLE/RICK PERRY: “Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Tuesday [4-25-17] he wouldn’t recommend the US pull out of the Paris climate accord — but instead would suggest the White House take steps to renegotiate the agreement.
Speaking at a Bloomberg event in New York, Perry said, ‘I’m not going to tell the President of the United States let’s just walk away from the Paris accord. But what I’m going to say is I think we probably need to renegotiate it, and they need to get serious about.’
President Donald Trump previously said he plans to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement — a 2015 accord that aims to limit global warming-causing gases and lets nations adjust their own emissions targets.”
-Miranda Green, “Rick Perry says US should ‘renegotiate’ Paris climate accord,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 26, 2017 4:50pm