Posted on 09/27/2017 9:47:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Four months ago, on the day President Donald Trump announced he was pulling the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement, Gov. Jerry Brown of California, Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York and Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington announced their states would team up to meet the target anyway.
Since then, what started as a contrarian statement by three Democratic leaders has grown into a green rebellion. The coalition now numbers 14 states and Puerto Rico — North Carolina joined last week — and includes several states with Republican governors.
The U.S. Climate Alliance, as the group is calling itself, released a report last week showing that through expanding solar power, wind energy, incentives for electric cars, building efficiency standards and other local efforts, the participating states cut greenhouse gas emissions 15 percent between 2005 and 2015, compared with 10 percent for the rest of the U.S. They are already on track to meet the Paris target of a 26 percent reduction by 2025.
David Victor, co-director of UC San Diego’s Laboratory on International Law and Regulation, said that although most of the states involved are Democratic, he thinks others may join, including possibly more conservative places like Iowa and Texas, which have a large wind industry, if their leaders frame the issue as supporting renewable energy rather than climate change, a more loaded political term. Even then, he said, it’s unclear how many of the signatories will follow through.
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They will forfeit most of their future economic growth to the 35 states who do not join.
Does Puerto Rico really want to “rebel” against Trump right now...?
California again...What a surprise!
If Puerto Rico has the finances and infrastructure to be able to meet the objectives of the Paris Treaty, then they surely don't need anything from the US government to recover from the hurricane ...
If Puerto Rico has the finances and infrastructure to be able to meet the objectives of the Paris Treaty, then they surely don't need anything from the US government to recover from the hurricane ...
And get a load of NYS. Guess we’re not hemorrhaging taxpayers, jobs, and House seats fast enough for Cuomo.
Ooops ...
Lines have been/are being drawn. We did not keep our republic, so devolution to vox populi vox dei is more and more a reality. The breath of fresh air, drain the swamp among others, is the clearest example of desire to return to individual responsibility. Secession this time, the modified map, would likely look like patchwork quilt.
KYPD
Is there a “red state” among them??
“and Puerto Rico “
Poor souls, they are going to be “green” for a long time.
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No it isn’t. This is a fake news article.
Puerto Rico would completely be Green and Carbon free if they stopped importing all this fuel and generators right now.
These states obviously don’t need access to cheaper oil/gas, New York is the poster child of this.
WV wants to increase gas supplies in the eastern panhandle, the easiest way was down from PA through MD. Maryland did not like the idea( the R governor signed a fracking ban), so, WV is likely to keep it within the state.
I just hope that all those folks in MD are happy without any of that evil gas to cook, heat and conduct business.
Reap what you sow.
Sure it is; why it MIGHT even extend to all six Democrat controlled states someday.
Please, it’s ‘Commissar Jerry Brown’; he hates the Bourgeois ‘Governor’ title.
Too eeasy, halt emergency gas deliveries to Porto Rico
Commies for climate change!
BALONEY! Dream on, Leftist psychotics, in your mass delusion.
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