The Trump administration might have dealt numerous setbacks in the fight to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but climate action in 2020 went local, with cities all over the country finding new ways to reduce emissions.
Amy Turner, an environmental lawyer and senior fellow for the Cities Climate Law Initiative at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, recently rounded a large collection of news from 2020 about cities passing laws and other egulations to combat climate change.
There's "no reason not to toast to all that US cities have done to combat climate change," according to Turner, who goes onto produce a long Twitter thread with local climate initiatives from all over the country—from California to Utah to Arizona to Kentucky to Pennsylvania to Ohio and more. Local climate initiatives listed here include bike infrastructure, open streets, solar installation programs, natural gas regulations, new transit revenues, building efficiency standards, and more.
2020 has been A YEAR, but that's no reason not to toast to all that US cities have done to combat climate change. Cities faced unprecedented challenges, but I forgot how much good stuff the accomplished, too!
Celebrate, draw inspiration, and tell me what I've missed! (1/x)— Amy Turner (@amyturner) December 31, 2020
Click through to Twitter on this first Tweet in the thread to read the whole list and link to detailed articles on each example.
FULL STORY: ...all that US cities have done to combat climate change...
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