States and cities are armoring up for increased climate responsibility as they face another four years of expected environmental rollbacks under a second Trump administration.
Pro-environment governors and mayors say they’ll push forward their state goals, even if federal climate leadership tanks. States stepped up to fill gaps when Republican President-elect Donald Trump took office the first time, and they can do it again, said Deb Markowitz, secretary of Vermont’s Agency of Natural Resources from 2011 to 2017.
“We really kept somewhat on track despite the fact that you had Donald Trump talking about bringing back coal,” she said.
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