Mayors, Sidestepping Trump, Vow to Fill Void on Climate Change

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So-called president Trump, leading from nowhere, is left behind again.

 

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MIAMI BEACH — Meeting in a city confronted daily with the issues of rising seas and climate change, the United States Conference of Mayorsapproved resolutions on Monday to urge the federal government to rejoin the Paris climate agreement and to redouble their own efforts to combat climate change and commit to renewable energy.

“If the federal government doesn’t act, it doesn’t mean we don’t have a national policy; the federal government doesn’t occupy the only place on this,” Mitch Landrieu, the mayor of New Orleans and the new president of the conference, said before the vote on the nonbinding resolutions. “Mayors have to respond to circumstances. We have to keep moving no matter what.”

On the closing day of the conference’s annual meeting, Republican and Democratic mayors came together to push their agendas on improving infrastructure, responding to gun violence and curbing opioid abuse. But it was the climate change debate that provided the sharpest contrast between the priorities of the mayors here — many of whom have focused on renewable energy and ways to deal with global warming — and the skepticism of the Trump administration on the issue.