Less than a week before President Donald Trump signed an executive order rolling back major elements of the Obama administrations climate change policies, one of the largest gas and oil companies in America advised the White House to remain a participant in the Paris climate agreement.
In a letter sent March 22 to the White House, Exxon Mobil urged the Trump administration not to pull out of the Paris Agreement, calling the landmark deal reached in 2015 an effective framework for addressing the risks of climate change and the first major international accord to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.