U.S. Skirts Decades-Old U.N. Deadline For Submitting Annual GHG Report

The U.S. in an unprecedented move appears to have missed an April 15 deadline to submit its latest annual greenhouse gas emissions inventory to the United Nations, pursuant to a treaty requirement dating to the mid-1990s, offering the latest manifestation of the Trump administration’s repudiation of climate change policies. “Every presidential administration for the past three decades (including the first Trump administration) has fulfilled this treaty obligation,” Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) said in an April 14 note to the press...