Protest against Paris Accord withdrawal planned for Trump Tower this afternoon

June 2, 2017

An “emergency protest” against President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord will take place in front of Chicago’s Trump International Hotel and Tower. The rally is backed by more than a dozen groups including Indivisible Chicago, the Sierra Club, the Illinois Environmental Council and AFGE Local 704, the union representing employees in the Chicago office of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Protest against Paris Accord withdrawal planned for Trump Tower this afternoon

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Pritzker EPA vows to step in as Trump calls for massive cuts to environmental protection

Illinois confident it can continue clean energy progress under Trump, but path expected to be harder

Illinois environment and labor officials seek closer ties on climate action

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