Tony Evers of Wisconsin has become the latest of four newly-elected Democratic governors who have pledged to adhere to the goals set out in the Paris climate accord, bucking President Donald Trump’s opposition to the international agreement.
Evers will announce on Tuesday his plan to join the U.S. Climate Alliance, according to staffers who spoke with The Washington Post.
Evers will be joining the ranks of Democratic Govs. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, and J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, all of whom won election last year vowing to reduce to their states’ carbon emissions.
Formed in June 2017, the U.S. Climate Alliance is a “bipartisan coalition of governors committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement,” according to the organization’s website.
States in adherence to the terms must aim to lower their “greenhouse gas emissions by at least 26-28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.”
The group claims 21 sitting governors as official pledges, including three Republicans. The gains Democrats made in the midterm elections has padded the organization’s numbers.
“It feels new and like a sea change as we’re thinking about who is leading on climate change and identifying policies that really resonate across the country and not just with constituents in the more liberal states,” stated Julie Cerqueira, the executive director of the Climate Alliance.
The coalition is meant as a rebuke to the Trump administration, which announced its intention to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement. Since before he entered the White House, Trump has long been a critic of the international agreement that calls on countries to reduce their carbon emissions.
While Democratic governors aim to buck the Trump administration on climate issues, others question if coalition membership is much more than a symbolic gesture.
“It doesn’t commit or obligate these states to anything; they don’t force any formal decision or commitment, and so I think for a newly elected governor they are relatively easy steps to take that are symbolic,” Barry Rabe, a professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a noted expert on climate policy, stated to The Washington Post.
While Democratic governors look for ways to reduce carbon emissions, Democrats in Congress are also taking up the cause of climate change.
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Let them destroy their state’s economy while the rest of us enjoy the low-cost energy made available from hydrocarbons.
These Dirty Democrats the Dirty Dastadly Democrats they all belong in Prison for Treason and kept away from the other inmates
To ” Spite Trump ” ?
How laughable
The ONLY thing they’ll really do is
destroy their states economy as a
defiance of presidential authority and
punish their electorate as a means of
defiance of the President.
Only a smellocrat would think this is
LOGICAL
As logical as the New Mexico governor pulling national guard troops from to boarder just because she hates trump. Do democrats care at all about their citizens they are supposed to be representing?
They punish their state’s residents to spite Trump? Jaypee is correct. Let’s see how long they are in office when taxes increase to pay for their green wet dreams.
Don’t you love politicians inventing phantom problems instead of solving real ones . Complete dumb asses who couldn’t organize a piss up at a brewery .
Globalists the jig is up . If they had been less hypocritical and virtuous they might have kept the con game going a little longer but they could only keep the socialists hidden for so long .
Yep eliminate air travel , all fossil fuels , and kill all cows as a food source . Now they have pissing off half the economy , even the unions .
Brilliant , kind of makes Hillary’s arrogant political 101 blunder to shut down coal and fire coal workers quaint . How much did the loony left bag men pay Hillary to utter those career ending words .
What would the Green’s pull for votes , maybe 5 % , yet they hijacked the Democrat Party while burning 15 -20% of the vote .
Hillary’s revenge runs deep .
How you know without a doubt that the democrat party is terminally ill? When they want to:
Raise income tax rate for “rich” to 90%, Tax all assets of “rich” annually, Stop use of “fossil fuels”–natural gas, crude oil, coal, eliminate air travel, eliminate cars and trucks, divide our culture into 100’s of identity groups, Take a look at the American Communist Party, it’s not your dad’s democratic party any more.
They only want to sneer their snouts in Trumps face being big time liberal democrats they want to make big headlines in the New York Pravda(Times)and get interviewed by liberal rags like TIME,NEWSWEEK,ROLLING STONE USA TODAY Etc and get big awards from the Eco-Freaks like Greenpeace,NRDC,EDF,Friends of the Earth Etc what they realy need is be arrested for Treason