A week after releasing a budget proposal that would slash funding for USDA rural development, cut farm conservation programs, and exacerbate hunger in rural communities, President Trump announced the U.S.is pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord.
The town's climate change successes to date include helping to reduce residents' annual carbon dioxide emissions from home, business, and transport energy use, from 5.6 tonnes per person in 2005 to 3.6 tonnes in 2016.
As far as facts go, let's state the obvious: Coal is never coming back. To avert unsafe climate change, the United States will need to shut down existing coal- and gas-fired power plants before the end of their operating lives.
Take wind, for example.
Conservative members of the NC House said that while the economy is priority No. 1, they aren't ignoring the environment, citing House Bill 589, which would ease some of the subsidies and mandates for the renewable energy industry.
States can set more stringent carbon pollution standards than the federal government, but those also come with risks.
Residential and commercial buildings account for almost 40 percent of all USA energy consumption and represent another huge opportunity to cut emissions at the city level.
We were glad to see our North Country congresswoman Elise Stefanik call Trump's decision "misguided" and "a mistake" that "harms the ongoing effort to fight climate change while also isolating us from our allies".
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Why is this happening in a state famous for its love of oil and gas? What we were trying to send is a message that its not up to the federal government.
Robert Murray, the CEO of coal producer Murray Energy, said that by withdrawing, Trump was "saving coal jobs, and promoting low-priced, reliable electricity for Americans and the rest of the world".
As cities and businesses increasingly take charge of the global climate response, researchers observe that weaving decarbonisation into regional trade agreements between the European Union and other emerging markets would strengthen and speed up the process. Donald Trump has created a new American climate movement.
States and cities have a lot of avenues to reduce emissions.
One degree may not sound like much, but Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute in Germany, says, "Every tenth of a degree increases the number of unprecedented extreme weather events considerably".
What does all this mean for the Paris treaty? And rural communities in the US will be left behind, again. Citing numbers prepared for a conservative think tank by NERA Economic Consulting, Trump said complying with the agreement could cost the United States 2.7 million jobs by 2025 and shave trillions from the US economy, according to national media reports.
Could all of this actually make Trump a "climate hero"? Many clean energy technologies are "past the tipping point and will keep eating fossil market share in any case", Michael Liebreich, founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, tweeted following the Paris announcement.
Actions of the Obama administration drew a map.
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