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Zorro

(15,737 posts)
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 10:31 AM Jan 2017

As Trump enters White House, California renews climate change fight

California released new measures to fight climate change within minutes of Donald Trump being sworn in as U.S. president on Friday, signaling the state's commitment to be the nation's environmental steward under an administration that has questioned the reality of global warming.

California officials said it was a coincidence that the plan was released 37 minutes after the inauguration. The state outlined how it would achieve its goal of cutting output of heat-trapping greenhouse gases 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.

The plan drew battle lines for an expected clash with Trump over climate change, including a fight over the state's decades-old authority to set emissions limits that are far stricter than those in many other parts of the United States.

Trump has cast doubt on the degree to which human activity causes climate change. His nominee for secretary of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, this week expressed doubts about the science behind climate change and said EPA rules should not hurt economic development.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-enters-white-house-california-renews-climate-change-020600967.html

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As Trump enters White House, California renews climate change fight (Original Post) Zorro Jan 2017 OP
To bad California could put a bubble over the state. yeoman6987 Jan 2017 #1
 

yeoman6987

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1. To bad California could put a bubble over the state.
Sat Jan 21, 2017, 12:11 PM
Jan 2017

I know ridiculous. Maybe when 49 states are destroying California's environment, the state could sue the federal government.

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