--- title: Donald Trump Disbands Climate Change Panel description: The Trump Administration chose to disband a panel that provides guidance on climate change to public and private sectors canonical: https://time.com/4908162/donald-trump-climate-change-panel/ author: Jennifer Calfas article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-20T20:38:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:30:01.237Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump Disbanded a Federal Panel Aimed at Fighting Climate Change og:description: The panel formed in 2015 og:url: https://time.com/4908162/donald-trump-climate-change-panel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9d45d7cb56093514/6988d0038fd2ee5c0e357566/trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: President Donald Trump Makes Statement On Paris Climate Agreement og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump Disbanded a Federal Panel Aimed at Fighting Climate Change twitter:description: The panel formed in 2015 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9d45d7cb56093514/6988d0038fd2ee5c0e357566/trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump Disbanded a Federal Panel Aimed at Fighting Climate Change > Sponsored content. 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It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, twice a week. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-dcbrief-2026q3/newsletters?i=e6eacd96-4330-4c24-b769-7b4fa767dca5&cr=time-nl-dcbrief-2026q3-v1) ## Video: President Trump's Remarks Announcing Withdrawal From Paris Climate Agreement [Watch (HLS stream): President Trump's Remarks Announcing Withdrawal From Paris Climate Agreement](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/HAjA0Ju8.m3u8) (3:14)  _Published 2017-06-01. President Donald Trump announced on Thursday plans for the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, fulfilling a major campaign promise while hampering international efforts to slow global warming._ by [Jennifer Calfas](https://time.com/author/jennifer-calfas/) ## Jennifer Calfas Aug 20, 2017 8:38 PM UTC by [Jennifer Calfas](https://time.com/author/jennifer-calfas/) ## Jennifer Calfas Aug 20, 2017 8:38 PM UTC The Trump administration has chosen to disband a federal advisory panel aimed at guiding public and private-sector officials in understanding the findings of the government’s reports on the climate. The 15-person Advisory Committee for Sustained National Climate Assessment, which is comprised of academics, industry, government and local officials, was established in 2015 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The charter for the group expired Sunday, and NOAA’s acting administer told the committee’s chair that the panel would not be renewed, [the Washington _Post_ reported](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/08/20/the-trump-administration-just-disbanded-a-federal-advisory-committee-on-climate-change/?utm%5Fterm=.8103c22fb0ed)_._ Since the Global Change Research Act of 1990 was established, the U.S. Global Change Research Program is tasked with creating a [National Climate Assessment](http://time.com/4892110/climate-change-negative-effects-draft-report/) every four years. The next report is slated to come out in 2018. NOAA communications director Julie Roberts confirmed the dismantling of the panel — first reported by the _Post_ — to TIME. She clarified that “this action does not impact the completion of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, which remains a key priority for the Department (of Commerce) and NOAA.” Part of that report, which has been [detailed by the New York _Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/climate/climate-change-drastic-warming-trump.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur), notes that the average temperature in the U.S. has grown dramatically since 1980\. “Many lines of evidence demonstrate that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse (heat-trapping) gases, are primarily responsible for recent observed climate change,” the scientists from 13 federal agencies wrote in the report. [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4908073/president-trump-popularity-approval-rating-swing-states/) recently signed an executive order addressing the nation’s infrastructure, which eliminated a part of an order from former President Barack Obama that required the federal government to take climate change and a rising sea-level into account when building. In early June, Trump [pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement](http://time.com/4801134/paris-agreement-withdrawal-donald-trump-rose-garden/) on climate change — a move that removed the U.S. from efforts to combat global warming and participate in an international conversation on climate change. ## Transcript The United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord, but begin negotiations to reenter either the Paris accord or really entirely new transaction. When terms that are fair to the United States, its businesses, its workers, its people, its taxpayers. As someone who cares deeply about the environment, which I do, I cannot, in good conscience, support a deal that punishes the United States, which is what it does. The World's leader in environmental protection while imposing no meaningful obligations on the World's leading polluters. This agreement is less about the climate. And more about other countries gaining a financial advantage over the United States. The rest of the world applauded when we signed the Paris Agreement. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] They went wild. They were so happy. I'm willing to immediately work with Democratic leaders To either negotiate a way back into Paris under the terms that ar fair to the United States and it's workers or to negotiate a new deal so if the obstruction is wanna to get us together with me let's make non obstructionist. We will all sit down and we will get back into the deal, and we'll make it good. We won't be closing up our factories and we won't be losing our jobs. We don't want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore, and they won't be. They won't be. I was elected to represent. The citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris. Foreign leaders in Europe, Asia and across the world, should not have more to say, with respect to the U. S. economy, than our own citizens and their elected representatives. Thus, our withdraw from the agreement represents a reassertion of Americas sovereignty. [ APPLAUSE ] Our Constitution is unique among all nations of the world. And it is my highest obligation And greatest honor to protect it, and I will. It is time to put Youngstown, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania along with many, many other locations within our great country. Before Paris France, it is time to make America great again. 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