You'll never guess who's pushing back on Trump's anti-environment agenda

Oil giant Exxon Mobil’s CEO is urging Donald Trump not to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, a historic climate treaty signed by almost every country in the world pledging to reduce emissions and reverse the damaging effects of climate change.

“We need a global system for managing global emissions,” CEO Darren Woods told The New York Times in a Tuesday interview at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. “Trump and his administrations have talked about coming back into government and bringing common sense back into government. I think he could take the same approach in this space.”

During his first stint in office, Trump officially withdrew the United States from the agreement in November 2020, just before losing reelection to now-President Joe Biden. But Biden reversed that decision hours after taking office in January 2021.

“We can no longer delay or do the bare minimum to address climate change,” Biden said in February 2021. “This is a global, existential crisis. And we’ll all suffer the consequences if we fail.”

But in his campaign to return to the White House, Trump said he would once again exit the agreement, even as 2024 has seen extreme weather events due to rising global temperatures in the hottest year on record.