The US administration is arguing that even as the US, and with it all of Earth, are steaming full ahead at the iceberg [substitute your favourite analogy] - the captain and its crew have no business steering it away from danger.
The stupidity is breathtaking. If the consequences weren't so irreversible, global, existential, it'd be laughable. But it isn't.
Such corruption of gvmt by the fossil industry, such capitalism has only one value: profit. Life, the future, the planet count for nothing.