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Related: About this forumWest Coast States Will Go It Alone On Climate - And Really Don't Give A Damn What Trump Does
The governors of the three U.S. West Coast states on Tuesday vowed to step up their efforts to fight climate change in the face of the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, who has dismissed global warming as a hoax. Democratic governors Jerry Brown of California, Jay Inslee of Washington and Katherine Brown of Oregon made stark warnings that climate change was already harming the Pacific Ocean along which their states lie.
"Our waters are at mortal risk," said Inslee, speaking via video-conference at a meeting of the International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification, in advance of the winter meeting of the Western Governors Association in Coronado near San Diego.
The three governors said they had joined the alliance, a group of U.S. states and countries including Chile and France dedicated to reducing rising acidity in the oceans, a phenomenon tied to climate change that threatens fish, coral reefs and other marine life. Jerry Brown also said that he had sent a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama, asking him to make permanent a recent five-year-ban on oil drilling off the coast of the most populous U.S. state.
The actions marked the latest in a series of moves by Democrats, led by California, to position themselves to fight efforts by Trump to undo progressive policies on the environment, immigration, healthcare and other issues.
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(14,537 posts)Nevada are to the States' residents.
Hawaii is an important part of this, too.
We are all Alliance, now.
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(20,871 posts)The Democrats control 2/3's of the legislative chambers. Republicans have become neutered. The fastest growing minority hates republicans because of Cheeto and long ago republican governor Pete Wilson.
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(22,651 posts)California hasn't recovered from the years of republican control. With the constant drought and ruined public lands, that place will turn into more desert vacant land as wildfires march on.
Look at the valley, the change over the past 20 years and its worse every year, not better. Even the last water in that valley, Kern county National Wildlife refuge is doomed.
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