US business leaders' anger at Trump's Paris pull-out

Two quit Trump advisory council while Goldman Sachs chief makes Twitter debut

US President Donald Trump announces his decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement. Pic: Getty

The US and global business community has lashed back atUS president Donald Trump’s decision to ditch the Paris climate accord, with two high-profile executives resigning from his advisory council and Goldman Sachs’s Lloyd Blankfein taking to Twitter for the first time to express disapproval.

“Today’s decision is a setback for the environment and for the US’s leadership position in the world,” Blankfein wrote. The one-sentence venture into the Twittersphere -- by a chief ...