Thursday, September 21, 2017
States Team Up To Fight Climate Change
A group of states adhering to the initial U.S. commitment to the Paris climate accord are on track to meet their environmental targets, despite the federal government planning to pull out the global pact, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday.
Earlier this year, President Donald Trump said he would withdraw from the Paris agreement in its current form, under which the U.S. pledged to reduce carbon emissions to combat climate change, along with other countries around the globe.
Mr. Cuomo subsequently co-founded the U.S. Climate Alliance with fellow Democratic governors Jerry Brown of California and Jay Inslee of Washington, who said they would stick with the agreement’s carbon-reduction protocols. . .