Showing posts with label Democrats try less ambitious approach to climate change. Show all posts
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Friday, March 29, 2019


By USA Today, March. 27, 2019

WASHINGTON – A day after Senate Republicans short-circuited the Green New Deal, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a significantly more modest approach Wednesday to addressing climate change: to block the Trump administration from abandoning the international accord known as the Paris Agreement.

Calling climate change "the existential threat of our time," Pelosi described the Climate Action Now Act as "only Step 1" of Democratic efforts to confront global warming.