{"id":9344,"date":"2026-07-18T07:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=9344"},"modified":"2026-07-18T07:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:05:15","slug":"trump-fumes-over-canadian-wildfire-smoke-and-issues-tariff-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=9344","title":{"rendered":"Trump fumes over Canadian wildfire smoke and issues tariff threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit_1500w\/rockcms\/2026-07\/260717-wildfire-smoke-mn-0840-08a32d.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"anchor-2b632d\" class=\"body-graf\">Carney on Thursday alluded to criticism of Canada\u2019s response to the natural disaster, spotlighting the U.S.\u2019s own opposition to climate policies. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-1d3b9e\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cEach of us has his own responsibility. At the moment, we\u2019re emphasizing investment in clean energy, but in the U.S., there are modes of production which are working against clean energy,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/nbcmontana.com\/news\/nation-world\/republican-senator-bernie-moreno-threatens-sanctions-for-canadian-wildfire-smoke-climate-change-mark-carney\" target=\"_blank\">told reporters<\/a> in French. \u201cAnd Canada is pursuing their efforts on the world scale, whereas the United States are reducing their footprint worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-522ea9\" class=\"body-graf\">Since returning to office, Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/climate-change\/trump-exit-climate-treaty-us-no-voice-global-negotiations-rcna252980\" target=\"_blank\">suspended U.S. support<\/a> for dozens of international climate initiatives and research groups. In March, a group of universities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/science-news\/lawsuit-challenges-trump-administration-plan-dismantle-largest-climate-rcna263813\" target=\"_blank\">sued the Trump administration<\/a> for its efforts to dismantle the country\u2019s largest federal climate research center. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-39e845\" class=\"body-graf\">Air quality alerts remain for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/weather\/wildfires\/wildfire-smoke-threatens-world-cup-final-trouble-may-brewing-pacific-n-rcna587992\" target=\"_blank\">more than 100 million people on Friday,<\/a> as smoke from the wildfires in Minnesota and Canada continues to envelop major cities, including Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New York City.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-de0e51\" class=\"body-graf\">The conditions have also led to concerns about Sunday\u2019s World Cup final, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/europe\/spanish-pm-sanchez-attend-world-cup-final-trump-tensions-rcna587967\" target=\"_blank\">Trump plans to attend,<\/a> in New Jersey, where poor air quality levels persist going into the weekend.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-e9b9a1\" class=\"body-graf\">The president has repeatedly touted the success of the tournament, even suggesting Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/trump-administration\/live-blog\/trump-congress-2026-election-china-iran-ice-doj-live-updates-rcna587892\/rcrd117434?canonicalCard=true\" target=\"_blank\">at a FIFA reception<\/a> that the U.S. should host the World Cup again. Trump also quipped that the next time the U.S. hosts the tournament, it should \u201cleave Mexico and Canada out.\u201d <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-12d103\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">Trump\u2019s threats Friday to raise tariffs against Canada come after the administration announced on July 1 that it plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/economy\/trump-usmca-renewal-tariffs-trade-rcna352594\" target=\"_blank\">drop out of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement<\/a>, which has been seen as a key stabilizing force across North America for the last six years. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carney on Thursday alluded to criticism of Canada\u2019s response to the natural disaster, spotlighting the U.S.\u2019s own opposition to climate policies. \u201cEach of us has his own responsibility. At the moment, we\u2019re emphasizing investment in clean energy, but in the U.S., there are modes of production which are working against clean energy,\u201d he told reporters&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_nbcnews-fp-1200-630,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2026-07\/260717-washington-wildfire-smoke-mn-0835-e0dde7.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-hub"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}