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US ends Arctic Council chairmanship with reluctance on climate action

By Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News May 11, 2017

FAIRBANKS — When he opened a meeting of his colleagues from all the Arctic nations, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson acknowledged the obvious controversy that has clouded relations in the far north: President Trump has made the United States an outlier on climate change and the landmark 2015 Paris agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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