The former administrators take particular exception to Trump’s stand on climate change, which he has characterized as a hoax. They say climate change is “the singular health and environmental threat to the world today” and praise the Paris agreement adopted in December by nearly 200 nations.
“To back away now, as Trump wants to do, would set the world back decades — years we could never recover,” the statement from Ruckelshaus and Reilly says. “The young people in this country deserve far better than that as our legacy.”
