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Climate Change Policy in the United States

State and Regional Policies

http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/climate_action_team/reports/2006report/2005-12-08_PEW_CENTER_REPORT.PDF

Clean Energy Standards

Clean Energy Standard (CES) policies are policies which favor lowering non-renewable energy emissions and increasing renewable energy. They are helping to drive the transition to cleaner energy, by building upon existing energy portfolio standards, and could be applied broadly at the federal level and developed more acutely at the regional and state levels. CES policies have had success at the federal level, gaining bipartisan support during the Obama administration. Iowa was the first state to adopt CES policies, and now a majority of states have adopted CES policies.

Environmental justice in state and regional policies

States and local governments are often tasked with defense against climate change injustices caused by federal regulations (or lack of regulations) that adversely affect areas and peoples under state and local jurisdiction. Environmental justice issues are often only mediated at the state and local levels,___transition...____

Mayors' International Climate Action Agenda

The Mayors' International Climate Action Agenda (MNCAA) was founded by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, former Houston Mayor Annise Parker, and former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter in 2015 to bring climate change policy into the hands of local government and to make federal climate change policies more accountable.

As a part of MNCAA, the "Climate Mayors," 75 mayors across the United States committed to upholding climate action policies, wrote to President Trump on March 28, 2017 in opposition to proposed rollbacks of several major climate change departments and initiatives._____ "we are also standing up for our constituents and all Americans harmed by climate change, including those most vulnerable among us: coastal residents confronting erosion and sea level rise; young and old alike suffering from worsening air pollution and at risk during heatwaves; mountain residents engulfed by wildfires; farmers struggling at harvest time due to drought; and communities across our nation challenged by extreme weather."