Lawmakers in New York City are doing so when compelling landlords to cut climate-warming emissions from their skyscrapers. “Green New Deal is a perfect articulation of our philosophy and our strategy,” Garcetti said in an interview last month. At the national level, the Green New Deal resolution from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) A bill in Minnesota, meanwhile, proposes getting all of the state’s electricity from carbon-free sources by 2030 — the same deadline as the national Green New Deal. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks inside Trump Tower in New York about the Green New Deal.

Source: Washington Post May 28, 2019 12:11 UTC