The U.S. is reduced to a tiny footnote on a key climate statement

Over the course of just the past few weeks, the United States has gone from the world leader on fighting global warming to its biggest holdout. 

The main trigger for this sudden role reversal was President Donald Trump's June 1 announcement that the U.S. would withdraw from the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, and now we're starting to see the ripple effects of that decision.

Take, for example, what happened at a meeting of the environment ministers from the Group of 7 industrialized nations on Sunday and Monday. 

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