Republican state attorneys general are calling on Trump administration officials to sit out next month’s COP30 climate summit in Brazil.
In letters led by West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey, 17 states argued that sending a delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference would lend credibility to what they said is an anti-fossil fuel event.
“Now, more than ever, America needs to take a strong stance against the anti-coal, anti-gas and anti-oil policies that the COP promotes,” the letter said, adding that if the United States participates, “it would serve only to legitimize such unsound science and policies.”
Letters went out Thursday to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.
