Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. It was a striking move for a coalition of local leaders: Making a case to the rest of the world that they, and not the president, spoke for the nation on climate policy. To date, however, that groundswell hasn’t been nearly enough to counteract the effects of the Trump administration’s retreat on climate policy. Jerry Brown of California, one of the most visible faces of the movement, known as “We Are Still In.” State and local leaders “ are carrying the flag while the big powers, the national guys, are rather somnolent.”

Source: New York Times September 11, 2018 15:33 UTC