Hawaii becomes America’s first state to join the Paris climate accord
Hawaii has become the first American state to adhere to the Paris climate agreement, just days after President Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the international pact.
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The world cannot wait and neither will we, 61 U.S. mayors pledge in support of Paris Agreement
Responding to President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the historic Paris Agreement on climate change, dozens of state and local officials have vowed to lead where the president refuses to.
Seattle sues Trump administration over ‘sanctuary city’ threat
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray says his city filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its move to pull federal funds over immigration law enforcement.
Berkeley becomes first city to divest from U.S.-Mexico border wall companies
The Bay Area city won’t do business with government contractors that work on Donald Trump’s pet project.
U.S. libraries join struggle to resist the Trump administration
Along with efforts to guide readers to trustworthy information sources, many branches are working to make themselves ‘sanctuary spaces’ for immigrants
The anti-Trump resistance takes hold in red states
In some of the most conservative parts of the country, voters without much experience in political organizing are taking a page out of the Tea Party playbook, while existing Democratic organizations are channeling discontent with the administration into protest.
Obama bans drilling in parts of the Atlantic and the Arctic
President Obama announced on Tuesday what he called a permanent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling along wide areas of the Arctic and the Atlantic Seaboard as he tried to nail down an environmental legacy that cannot quickly be reversed by Donald J. Trump.