Liberal mayors from all over the country and banding together to say they will not enforce Trump’s rollback of Obama’s Climate Change policies, explicitly his executive order that undoes Obama’s Clean Power Plan:
A cadre of 75 mayors, taking a page from mayors and governors who announced they will not assist federal authorities with illegal immigrants, has announced they will not enforce the White House’s recent rollback of Obama-era climate policies.
The signatories include mayors of major metropolitan areas like New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and D.C., as well as smaller cities like Santa Monica, California, Park City, Utah, and Eugene, Oregon as part of the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda (also known as Climate Mayors.) The group is standing together in defiance of Trumps recent executive order, according to Curbed.
“Climate action is also an investment in our economy and job creation — electric vehicles, solar power, energy efficiency and battery storage are all avenues to restoring our nation’s manufacturing base and create good, middle class jobs,” reads the Climate Mayors letter to Trump.
Los Angeles’ Mayor Eric Garcetti, a co-founder of the Climate Mayors, said cities such as his need to double down on their commitment to the environment.
“President Trump’s moves today to undo the Clean Power Plan and roll back other key climate policies undermine the important efforts — throughout the country and the world — to tackle the single greatest threat and economic opportunity of our time: climate change,” Garcetti said in a statement released Tuesday when the executive order was announced.
Can you imagine this kind of opposition by Republican mayors to Obama in 2009? They’d all be branded as racist. But these liberal mayors seem to want to gang up and oppose Trump on everything, including on illegal immigration.
Also, this is another reason not to live in city or state controlled by liberals. They will keep instituting job killing policies all in the name of the greater good, even if it has little to no affect on the greater good as do Climate policies.