Quoted: Tillerson cites GHG cuts to urge 'perspective' on Paris exit

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who unsuccessfully urged President Donald Trump to remain in the Paris climate agreement, is calling on observers to keep the president's plan to withdraw from the landmark deal “in perspective” because of the United States' “ongoing efforts” to reduce greenhouse gases. The country's track record of cutting GHGs is “something I think we can be proud of and that was done in the absence of a Paris Agreement,” Tillerson said in June 2 remarks before...