Coalitions in U.S. Cities Are Vital in Meeting Key Paris Agreement Goals

Route Fifty: WASHINGTON — U.S. mayors, throughout their 2018 winter meeting in D.C., stressed the importance of coalition building in the effort to maintain global climate change mitigation goals.

President Trump jeopardized those goals when he withdrew the country, one of the world’s largest carbon polluters, from the international Paris Agreement nearly eight months ago.

Carmel, Indiana Mayor Jim Brainard, a Republican, sought to distance his party from its anti-environment, energy dominance agenda at the federal level—calling it a “passing phenomenon.”

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