President Donald Trump announced that he was withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, the Washington Examiner reported. The move was among the numerous executive orders Trump signed on his first day in office after his inauguration. The new president called the climate agreement unfair and costly while announcing the decision.

President Donald Trump said Monday he will again withdraw the United States from the landmark Paris climate agreement, dealing a blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the U.S. from its closest allies.

The Paris agreement is a mostly voluntary climate pact originally written in ways that would both try to reduce warming and withstand the changing political winds in the United States. In his first hours in office,