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Some of President
Donald Trump's top advisers, including Energy Secretary Rick
Perry and Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt,
were scheduled to meet on Tuesday to discuss how Trump should
handle the 2015 climate deal.
The meeting was canceled because "some of the principals are
traveling today," the White House official said.
The meeting will be rescheduled, but no date has been set, the
official said.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters on Air
Force One as Trump was returning from a visit to Wisconsin that
the meeting "could be as soon as tomorrow, but I know that
they're working on trying to find a time that works for
everybody."
The accord, agreed on by nearly 200 countries in Paris in 2015
and ratified in 2016, aims to limit planetary warming in part by
slashing carbon dioxide and other emissions from the burning of
fossil fuels. Under the pact, the United States committed to
reducing its emissions by 26 to 28 percent from 2005 levels by
2025.
Trump has said the United States should "cancel" the deal, but
he has been mostly quiet on the issue since he was elected last
November.
The White House has said it would take a position on the
agreement before a summit of the Group of Seven wealthy nations
in late May.
(Reporting by Steve Holland; Writing by Ayesha Rascoe; Editing
by Dan Grebler and Peter Cooney)
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