ToplineFormer President Barack Obama knocked his White House successor, former President Donald Trump, Monday for rolling back environmental protections during his speech at the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow, during a wide-ranging talk in which he also criticized China and Russia. Former U.S. President Barack Obama does not mince words in his speech at COP26 on November 8, 2021, ... [+] in Glasgow, Scotland. Despite Trump’s “hostility” toward environmental protections, work by state and local governments, and the clean energy investments already in place “allowed our country to keep moving forward,” Obama said. Obama said President Joe Biden had helped the U.S. reverse course, saying Biden’s Build Back Better plan will help the U.S. build a more sustainable future. Biden rejoined the Paris agreement in February, and has reversed many of the Trump-era environmental deregulations.

Source: Forbes November 09, 2021 03:10 UTC