KUTV: Salt Lake City Mayor commits to uphold climate agreement

(KUTV) Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski announced Salt Lake City's continuing commitment to uphold the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement after Trump's withdrawal.

468 US Climate Mayors commit to adopt, honor and uphold Paris Climate Agreement goals

STATEMENT FROM THE CLIMATE MAYORS IN RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT TRUMP’S WITHDRAWAL FROM THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT

The President’s denial of global warming is getting a cold reception from America’s cities. As 466 US Mayors representing 74 million Americans, we will adopt, honor, and uphold the commitments to the goals enshrined in the Paris Agreement. We will intensify efforts to meet each of our cities’ current climate goals, push for new action to meet the 1.5 degrees Celsius target, and work together to create a 21st-century clean energy economy. We will continue to lead. We are increasing investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency. We will buy and create more demand for electric cars and trucks. We will increase our efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, create a clean energy economy, and stand for environmental justice. And if the President wants to break the promises made to our allies enshrined in the historic Paris Agreement, we’ll build and strengthen relationships around the world to protect the planet from devastating climate risks. The world cannot wait — and neither will we.

Signed,

Mayor Trish Herrera, Spencer City of Alameda, CA / Mayor Peggy McQuaid, City of Albany, CA / Mayor Sharon Konopa, City of Albany, OR / Mayor Kathy Sheehan, City of Albany, NY / Mayor Tim Keller, City of Albuquerque, NM / Mayor Justin Wilson, City of Alexandria, VA / Mayor Ray O’Connell, City of Allentown, PA / Mayor Jeanne Sorg, City of Ambler, PA / Mayor Gary Goosman, City of Amesville, OH / Mayor Gavin Buckley, City of Annapolis, MD / Mayor Terence Roberts, City of Anderson, SC / Mayor Christopher Taylor, City of Ann Arbor, MI / Mayor Van W. Johnson, City of Apalachicola, FL / Mayor Michael Winkler, City of Arcata, CA / Mayor Nancy Kaboolian, City of Ardsley, NY / Mayor Jose Gurrola, Jr., City of Arvin, CA / Mayor Esther Manheimer, City of Asheville, NC / Mayor Torre, City of Aspen, CO / Mayor Steve Patterson, City of Athens, OH / Mayor Keisha Bottoms, City of Atlanta, GA / Mayor Steve Adler, City of Austin, TX / Mayor Bernard Young, City of Baltimore, MD / Mayor Gordon Ringberg, City of Bayfield, WI / Mayor Lee Kyriacou, Beacon, NY / Mayor Denny Dole, City of Beaverton, OR / Mayor Ned Burns, City of Bellevue, ID / Mayor Kelli Linville, City of Bellingham, WA / Mayor Charles Stone, City of Belmont, CA / Mayor Jesse Arreguin, City of Berkeley, CA / Mayor Robert Donchez, City of Bethlehem, PA / Mayor Michael P. Cahill, City of Beverly, MA / Mayor Lili Bosse, City of Beverly Hills, CA / Mayor Ben Kessler, City of Bexley, OH / Mayor Richard David, City of Binghamton, NY / Mayor Randall Woodfin, City of Birmingham, AL / Mayor David Smith, City of Bisbee, AZ / Mayor Leslie Hager-Smith, City of Blacksburg, VA / Mayor Tari Ranner, City of Bloomington, IL / Mayor John Hamilton, City of Bloomington, IN / Mayor Gene Winstead, City of Bloomington, MN / Mayor Lauren McLean, City of Boise, ID / Mayor Martin J Walsh, City of Boston, MA / Mayor Sam Weaver, City of Boulder, CO / Mayor Tim Adams, City of Bowie, MD / Mayor Steven Grant, City of Boynton Beach, FL / Mayor Chris Mehl, City of Bozeman, MT / Mayor Eric Mamula, City of Breckenridge, CO / Mayor Joseph Ganim, City of Bridgeport, CT / Mayor William Moehle, City of Brighton, NY / Mayor Terry O’Connell, City of Brisbane, CA / Mayor Patricia Moore, City of Buchanan, MI / Mayor Byron Brown, City of Buffalo, NY / Mayor Emily Beach, City of Burlingame, CA / Mayor Miro Weinberger, City of Burlington, VT / Mayor Elizabeth Kautz, City of Burnsville, MN / Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui, City of Cambridge, MA / Mayor Edwin Garcia, City of Camuy, PR / Mayor Robert Hoog, City of Cape Canaveral, FL / Mayor Robert Moffatt, City of Cape May Point, NJ / Mayor Jim Brainard, City of Carmel, IN / Mayor Lydia Lavelle, City of Carrboro, NC / Mayor Albert Robles, City of Carson, CA / Mayor Courtney Johnson, City of Carver, MN / Mayor Deborah Frank Feinen, City of Champaign, IL / Mayor Pam Hemminger, City of Chapel Hill, NC / Mayor Bob Trainor, City of Charles Town, WV / Mayor John Tecklenburg, City of Charleston, SC / Mayor Vi Lyles, City of Charlotte, NC / Mayor Mike Signer, City of Charlottesville, VA / Mayor Andy Berke, City of Chattanooga, TN / Mayor Chuck Cahn, City of Cherry Hill, NJ / Mayor Lori Lightfoot, City of Chicago, IL / Mayor Mary Casillas Salas, City of Chula Vista, CA / Mayor John Cranley, City of Cincinnati, OH / Mayor Larry Schroeder, City of Claremont, CA / Mayor Charlene Lovett, City of Claremont, NH / Mayor Ted Terry, City of Clarkston, GA / Mayor George Cretekos, City of Clearwater, FL / Mayor Frank Jackson, City of Cleveland, OH / Mayor Louis Sarbone, City of Coconut Creek, FL / Mayor Patrick L. Wojahn, College Park, MD / Mayor Brian Treece, City of Columbia, MO / Mayor Stephen Benjamin, City of Columbia, SC / Mayor Andrew Ginther, City of Columbus, OH / Mayor Jim Bouley, City of Concord, NH / Mayor Yaniv Aronson, City of Conshohocken, PA / Mayor Ellen Tilapaugh, City of Cooperstown, NY / Mayor Raul Valdes-Fauli, City of Coral Gables, FL / Mayor James Andrews, City of Corte Madera, CA / Mayor Brian Tobin, City of Cortland, NY / Mayor Biff Traber, City of Corvallis, OR / Mayor John Moore, City of Cotati, CA / Mayor Dave Bauer, City of Crete, NE / Mayor Thomas Moore, Culver City, CA / Mayor Steven Scharf, City of Cupertino, CA / Mayor Tim Meerbott, City of Cutler Bay, FL / Mayor Eric Johnson, City of Dallas, TX / Mayor Ray Buenaventura, Daly City, CA / Mayor Brett Lee, City of Davis, CA / Mayor Nan Whaley, City of Dayton, OH / Mayor Jerry Smith, City of DeKalb, IL / Mayor Shelly Petrolia, City of Delray Beach, FL / Mayor Michael Hancock, City of Denver, CO / Mayor Franklin Cownie, City of Des Moines, IA / Mayor Mike Duggan, City of Detroit, MI / Mayor Vincnet Rossillo, Village of Dobbs Ferry, NY / Mayor Robert Carrier, City of Dover, NH / Mayor Josh Maxwell, City of Downingtown, PA / Mayor David Haubert, City of Dublin, CA / Mayor Roy D Buol, City of Dubuque, IA / Mayor Emily Larson, City of Duluth, MN / Mayor Julie Ward Bujalski, Town of Dunedin, FL / Mayor Jason Cilento, City of Dunellen, NJ / Mayor Edmond P. 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Saunders, City of Smithville, TX / Mayor Matt Larson, City of Snoqualmie, WA / Mayor Dana Hilliard, City of Somersworth, NH / Mayor Joe Curtatone, City of Somerville, MA / Mayor Amy Harrington, City of Sonoma, CA / Mayor Pete Buttigieg, City of South Bend, INMayor Sally PhilipsCity of South Miami, FLMayor Sheena CollumCity of South Orange Village, NJMayor Claude MorganCity of South Portland, MEMayor Domenic J. SarnoCity of Springfield, MAMayor Lyda KrewsonCity of St Louis, MOMayor Jake SpanoCity of St Louis Park, MNMayor Len PaganoCity of St Peters, MO / Mayor Rick Kriseman, City of St Petersburg, FL / Mayor Bill McMurray, City of St. Joseph, MO / Mayor David Martin, City of Stamford, CT / Mayor Ronald Filippelli, City of State College, PA / Mayor Constantine Kutteh, City of Statesville, NC / Mayor Michael Tubbs, City of Stockton, CA / Mayor Larry Klein, City of Sunnyvale, CA / Mayor Michael J. Ryan, City of Sunrise, FL / Mayor Daniel E. Dietch, City of Surfside, FL / Mayor Marty Spiegel, City of Swarthmore, PA / Mayor Thomas Fromm, City of Swedesboro, NJ / Mayor Ben Walsh, City of Syracuse, NY / Mayor Victoria Woodards, City of Tacoma, WA / Mayor Kate Stewart, City of Takoma Park, MD / Mayor John Dailey, City of Tallahassee, FL / Mayor Jane Castor, City of Tampa, FL / Mayor Drew Fixell, City of Tarrytown, NY / Mayor DeLanie Young, City of Telluride, CO / Mayor Corey Woods, City of Tempe, AZ / Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz, City of Toledo, OH / Mayor Patrick J. Furey, City of Torrance, CA / Mayor Jim Carruthers, City of Traverse City, MI / Mayor Reed Gusciora, City of Trenton, NJ / Mayor Frank Bubenik, City of Tualatin, OR / Mayor Regina Romero, City of Tucson, AZ / Mayor Brian Stack, City of Union City, NJ / Mayor Terry Crow, City of University City, MO / Mayor Diane W. Marlin, City of Urbana, IL / Mayor Dave Chapin, City of Vail, CO / Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle, City of Vancouver, WA / Mayor John Holic, City of Venice, FL / Mayor Matt Levere, City of Ventura, CA / Mayor Jack McEvoy, Township of Verona, NJ / Mayor Luke Diaz, City of Verona, WI / Mayor Robert Blais, Village of Lake George, NY / Mayor Muriel Bowser, City of Washington, D.C. / Mayor Rebecca J. Garcia, City of Watsonville, CA / Mayor Sam Cunningham, City of Waukegan, IL / Mayor Dianne Herrin, City of West Chester, PA / Mayor Michelle W. Brindle, City of Westfield, NJ / Mayor Shari G. Cantor, City of West Hartford, CT / Mayor Nancy Rossi, City of West Haven, CT / Mayor Lindsey P. Horvath, City of West Hollywood, CA / Mayor John Dennis, City of West Lafayette, IN / Mayor Russ Axelrod, City of West Linn, OR / Mayor Felix E. Roque, City of West New York, NJ / Mayor Keith James, City of West Palm Beach, FL / Mayor Christopher Cabaldon, City of West Sacramento, CA / Mayor Daniel Corona, City of West Wendover, NV / Mayor William R. Wild, City of Westland, MI / Mayor Herb Atchison, City of Westminster, CO / Mayor Daniel J. Stermer, City of Weston, FL / Mayor Bud Starker, City of Wheat Ridge , CO / Mayor Thomas M. Roach, City of White Plains, NY / Mayor John Muhlfeld, City of Whitefish, MT / Mayor Ryan Reynolds, City of Whitney Point, NY / Mayor Bob Bielinski, City of Wilmette, IL / Mayor Dominic Foppoli, City of Windsor, CA / Mayor Dave Burgess, City of Windsor Heights, IA / Mayor Allen Joines, City of Winston Salem, NC / Mayor Xóchitl Rodríguez, City of Woodland, CA / Mayor Daniel Yost, City of Woodside, CA / Mayor Brian Sager, City of Woodstock, IL / Mayor Joseph M. Petty, City of Worcester, MA / Mayor Mike Spano, City of Yonkers, NY / Mayor Jamael Tito Brown, City of Youngstown, OH / Mayor Lois Richardson, City of Ypsilanti, MI

The statement was originally released on June 1, 2017 with 61 signatories.

Updated signatories as of 3:00 pm PT on November 27, 2019.

Mayor Garcetti leads ‘Climate Mayors’ to oppose U.S. withdrawal from Paris Agreement

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Eric Garcetti today led a coalition of mayors across the United States in denouncing President Trump’s decision to walk away from the Paris Climate Agreement.

“Climate change is a fact of life that people in Los Angeles and cities around the world live with every day. It is a grave threat to our health, our environment, and our economy — and it is not debatable or negotiable,” said Mayor Garcetti. “This is an urgent challenge, and it’s much bigger than one person. With the President pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, L.A. will lead by committing to the goals of the accord — and will work closely with cities across America and the world to do the same.”

On Wednesday, Mayor Garcetti worked with Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin to have a City Council motion introduced instructing the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and other City Departments, to adopt the principles of the Paris Climate Agreement as the policy of the City of Los Angeles. Councilmembers Nury Martinez, Paul Koretz and Paul Krekorian joined in the motion.

The Mayor is a co-founder of the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda (“Climate Mayors”), which today issued the following statement signed by Mayor Garcetti and 60 other mayors of cities from coast to coast:

“The President’s denial of global warming is getting a cold reception from America’s cities. As 61 Mayors representing 36 million Americans, we will adopt, honor, and uphold the commitments to the goals enshrined in the Paris Agreement. We will intensify efforts to meet each of our cities’ current climate goals, push for new action to meet the 1.5 degrees Celsius target, and work together to create the 21st century clean energy economy. We will continue to lead. We are increasing investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency. We will buy and create more demand for electric cars and trucks. We will increase our efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, create a clean energy economy, and stand for environmental justice. And if the President wants to break the promises made to our allies enshrined in the historic Paris Agreement, we’ll build and strengthen relationships around the world to protect the planet from devastating climate risks. The world cannot wait — and neither will we.”

Mayor Garcetti is the co-founder of the Climate Mayors (also known as the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda, or MNCAA), a network of 88 U.S. cities representing more than 43 million Americans — working together to strengthen local efforts for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and supporting efforts for binding federal and global-level policymaking. Earlier this year, Mayor Garcetti led the release of an EV RFI with 30 MNCAA cities to demonstrate potential demand for over 114,000 electric vehicles, trucks, and equipment for cities. Mayor Garcetti is also Vice Chair of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, an international network of the world's megacities taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and he has signed the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy.

In March, the Mayor released the second annual progress report on his Sustainable City pLAn, which sets Los Angeles’ greenhouse gas emission reduction targets at 45% below 1990 levels by 2025, 65% by 2035, and 80% by 2050. Of the pLAn’s 2017 goals, over 90 percent are on track to be completed this year.

• Creating more than 20,000 green jobs while reducing the gap between the City and County’s unemployment rates, demonstrating that sustainability and prosperity go hand-in-hand.

• Achieving a record 20 percent reduction in water use per capita, making L.A. the most water efficient big city in America — since 2014, L.A. has reduced enough water to fill over 90,000 Olympic swimming pools.

• Installing enough solar in the last year to power over 12,000 homes, and leading American cities with more than 230MW of total installed solar power.

• Adopting the most ambitious and comprehensive energy and water efficiency law for existing buildings of any U.S. city.

• More than 80 percent of all City fleet procurements in the current budget year are electric vehicles — far exceeding the 2017 target of 50 percent, and giving L.A. the nation’s largest pure battery electric vehicle municipal fleet, as well as the largest electric vehicle police fleet.

Climate Mayors Letter to President Trump on Roll Back of U.S. Climate Actions

March 28, 2017

Dear President Trump,

As members of the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda (MNCAA), we represent more than 42 million Americans in 75 cities across our nation — in red and blue states alike. We write to strongly object to your actions to roll back critically important U.S. climate policies including the Clean Power Plan and vehicle fuel efficiency standards, as well as proposed budget cuts to the EPA and critical federal programs like Energy Star.

Climate change is both the greatest single threat we face, and our greatest economic opportunity for our nation. That is why we affirm our cities’ commitments to taking every action possible to achieve the principles and goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, and to engage states, businesses and other sectors to join us.

As Mayors, we work with our constituents face-to-face, every day, and they demand that we act on climate to improve quality of life and create economic growth. As public servants and stewards of public funds and infrastructure, we also cannot ignore the costs of inaction.

That is why 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.

Climate action is also an investment in our economy and job creation — electric vehicles, solar power, energy efficiency and battery storage are all avenues to restoring our nation’s manufacturing base and create good, middle class jobs. Recently, thirty MNCAA cities demonstrated how we can accelerate markets and drive economic growth by issuing a formal Request for Information for the potential acquisition of nearly 115,000 electric vehicles for our municipal fleets.

The private sector recognizes the opportunities of climate action as well. Goldman Sachs is committing $150 billion to clean energy capital. Companies like Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and Google are some of the largest purchasers of solar and renewable energy. Today, one in fifty American jobs is now in the solar sector, surpassing employment in oil, gas, and coal extraction combined. Texas is once again experiencing an energy boom — this time, with wind power. In fact, the majority of wind jobs in the U.S. are in congressional districts that voted for you.

As the “Climate Mayors,” we wrote to you during your transition asking that you work with cities on climate action – the nation’s first responders and economic hubs – and to embrace the Paris Climate Agreement commitment. Instead, we fear your Administration’s recent actions and today’s executive order will undermine America’s leadership on climate action, if not take us backwards.

We urge you to change course, and to join us. In the meantime, America’s cities will continue to lead the way in moving forward in protecting our residents from the disastrous effects of climate change, and creating a thriving 21st century economy.

Sincerely,

Mayor Eric Garcetti, City of Los Angeles, CA / Mayor Ed Murray, City of Seattle, WA / Mayor Lioneld Jordan, City of Fayetteville, AR / Mayor Kasim Reed, City of Atlanta, GA / Mayor Martin J Walsh, City of Boston, MA / Mayor Rahm Emanuel, City of Chicago, IL / Mayor Sylvester Turner, City of Houston, TX / Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York City, NY / Mayor Jim Kenney, City of Philadelphia, PA / Mayor Ed Lee, City of San Francisco, CA / Mayor Sam Liccardo, City of San Jose, CA / Mayor Muriel Bowser, Washington, D.C. / Mayor Esther Manheimer, City of Asheville, NC / Mayor Steve Skadron, City of Aspen, CO / Mayor Steve Adler, City of Austin, TX / Mayor John Hamilton, City of Bloomington, IN / Mayor Suzanne Jones, City of Boulder, CO / Mayor Lori S Liu, City of Brisbane, CA / Mayor Miro Weinberger, City of Burlington, VT / Mayor Mary Casillas Salas, City of Chula Vista, CA / Mayor Stephen K Benjamin, City of Columbia, SC / Mayor Michael Hancock, City of Denver, CO / Mayor Roy D Buol, City of Dubuque, IA / Mayor William V Bell, City of Durham, NC / Mayor David Kaptain, City of Elgin, IL / Mayor Lucy Vinis, City of Eugene, OR / Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl, City of Evanston, IL / Mayor Madeline Rogero, City of Knoxville, TN / Mayor Philip Levine, City of Miami Beach, FL / Mayor Tom Barrett, City of Milwaukee, WI / Mayor Mark Gamba, City of Milwaukie, OR / Mayor Betsy Hodges, City of Minneapolis, MN / Mayor John Hollar, City of Montpelier, VT / Mayor Dennis Coombs, City of Longmont, CO / Mayor Robert Garcia, City of Long Beach, CA / Mayor Jon Mitchell, City of New Bedford, MA / Mayor Mitch Landrieu, City of New Orleans, LA / Mayor Libby Schaaf, City of Oakland, CA / Mayor Buddy Dyer, City of Orlando, FL / Mayor Greg Scharff, City of Palo Alto, CA / Mayor Jack Thomas, Park City, UT / Mayor Bill Peduto, City of Pittsburgh, PA / Mayor Ted Wheeler, City of Portland, OR / Mayor Liz Lempert, Municipality of Princeton, NJ / Mayor Jorge Elorza, City of Providence, RI / Mayor Alan Galbraith, City of Saint Helena, CA / Mayor Jackie Biskupski, Salt Lake City, UT / Mayor Pauline Russo Cutter, City of San Leandro, CA / Mayor Ted Winterer, City of Santa Monica, CA / Mayor Joe Curtatone, City of Somerville, MA / Mayor Glenn Hendricks, City of Sunnyvale, CA / Mayor Marilyn Strickland, City of Tacoma, WA / Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, City of Tucson, AZ / Mayor Jeri Muoio, City of West Palm Beach, FL / Mayor Christopher Cabaldon, City of West Sacramento, CA / Mayor Allen Joines, City of Winston Salem, NC / Mayor Kathy Sheehan, City of Albany, NY

Updated signatories as of 2pm PT on May 31, 2017

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Bloomberg: Cities Shop for $10 Billion of Electric Cars to Defy Trump

Dozens of U.S. cities are willing to buy $10 billion of electric cars and trucks to show skeptical automakers there’s demand for low-emission vehicles, just as President Donald Trump seeks to review pollution standards the industry opposes.

Climate Mayors Open Letter to President-elect Donald J. Trump on Climate Action

November 22, 2016

Dear President-elect Trump,

As Mayors, we have taken it upon ourselves to take bold action within our cities to tackle the climate crisis head-on. We write today to ask for your partnership in our work to clean our air, strengthen our economy, and ensure that our children inherit a nation healthier and better prepared for the future than it is today.

We lead 71 small and large American cities, comprising over 38 million Americans in both blue and red states. We have joined together in the Mayors’ National Climate Action Agenda (MNCAA), or the #ClimateMayors, in addressing the greatest challenge of our time, climate change. Each of our cities is committing to ambitious targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, set climate action, regularly report on our progress, share lessons and hold each other accountable.

Around the globe, cities are working together through organizations like C40 as well.The effects of climate change – extreme storms, wildfires and drought; sea level rise and storm surge; choking air pollution in cities; disruption of agricultural supply chains and jobs in rural heartlands; and coastal erosion, to name a few – are a clear and present danger to American interests at home and abroad. This is why the U.S. Department of Defense stated in 2015 “that climate change is an urgent and growing threat to our national security”.

Furthermore, estimates have shown these impacts from climate change could cost the American economy $500 billion annually by 2050, and that figure will only rise unless we work together to stem, and ultimately reverse, the amount of greenhouse gases entering our atmosphere. The cost of prevention pales in comparison to cost of inaction, in terms of dollars, property and human life.

As our incoming President, as a businessman, and as a parent, we believe we can find common ground when it comes to addressing an issue not rooted in politics or philosophy, but in science and hard economic data. Simply put, we can all agree that fires, flooding and financial losses are bad for our country, that we need to protect our communities’ most vulnerable residents who suffer the most from the impacts of climate change, and that we all need healthier air to breathe and a stronger economy–rural and urban, Republican and Democrat–and in terms of our domestic quality of life and our standing abroad.

On November 8, American voters approved more than $200 billion in local measures, funded by their own local tax dollars, to improve quality of life and reduce carbon pollution. Seventy percent of voters in Los Angeles County, the car capital of the world, approved a $120 billion, multi-decade commitment to public transit. Seattle voters approved transit investments totaling $54 billion; Austin voters approved a record-setting $720 million mobility bond; Boston voters approved investment in affordable housing, parks, historic preservation and more.

As President, you will have the power to expand and accelerate these local initiatives which the people resoundingly supported. We call upon you and the federal government you will lead to help cities leverage funds for the hundreds of billions of dollars in transit, energy, infrastructure and real estate development necessary to upgrade our infrastructure for the 21st century. We ask that you lead us in expanding the renewable energy sources we need to achieve energy security, address climate change and spark a new manufacturing, energy and construction boom in America. We ask that you help provide American businesses the certainty to invest through continued tax credits for electric vehicles, solar power, renewables and other clean technologies. And we ask that you shift to embrace the Paris Climate Agreement and make U.S. cities your partner in doing so.

While we are prepared to forge ahead even in the absence of federal support, we know that if we stand united on this issue, we can make change that will resonate for generations. We have no choice and no room to doubt our resolve. The time for bold leadership and action is now.

Signed,

Mayor Eric Garcetti, City of Los Angeles, CA / Mayor Martin J. Walsh, City of Boston, MA / Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York City, NY / Mayor Edward B Murray, City of Seattle, WA / Mayor Stephen K. Benjamin, City of Columbia, SC / Mayor Jennifer W. Roberts, City of Charlotte, NC / Mayor Rahm Emanuel, City of Chicago, IL / Mayor Greg Stanton, City of Phoenix, AZ / Mayor Jim Kenney, City of Philadelphia, PA / Mayor Buddy Dyer, City of Orlando, FL / Mayor Roy D. Buol, City of Dubuque, IA / Mayor Charlie Hales, City of Portland, OR / Mayor Jackie Biskupski, Salt Lake City, UT / Mayor Libby Schaaf, City of Oakland, CA / Mayor Sam Liccardo, City of San Jose, CA / Mayor Muriel Bowser, Washington, DC / Mayor Christopher B. Coleman, City of Saint Paul, MN / Mayor Kasim Reed, City of Atlanta, GA / Mayor Sly James, City of Kansas City, MO / Mayor Michael B. Hancock, City and County of Denver, CO / Mayor Steve Adler, City of Austin, TX / Mayor Ed Lee, City of San Francisco, CA / Mayor Bill Peduto, City of Pittsburgh, PA / Mayor Kitty Piercy, City of Eugene, OR / Mayor Tom Bates, City of Berkeley, CA / Mayor Tony Vasquez, City of Santa Monica, CA / Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, City of Somerville, MA / Mayor Steve Skadron, City of Aspen, CO / Mayor Suzanne Jones, City of Boulder, CO / Mayor Jack Thomas, Park City, UT / Mayor Mary Casillas Salas, City of Chula Vista, CA / Mayor Elizabeth B. Tisdahl, City of Evanston, IL / Mayor-elect Darrell Steinberg, City of Sacramento, CA / Mayor Sylvester Turner, City of Houston, TX / Mayor Patrick Burt, City of Palo Alto, CA / Mayor Mitchell J. Landrieu, City of New Orleans, LA / Mayor Philip Levine, City of Miami Beach, FL / Mayor Lioneld Jordan, City of Fayetteville, AR / Mayor Betsy Hodges, City of Minneapolis, MN / Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson, City of Gary, IN / Mayor Ashley Swearengin, City of Fresno, CA / Mayor John Hamilton, City of Bloomington, IN / Mayor-elect Michael Tubbs, City of Stockton, CA / Mayor John J. Tecklenburg, City of Charleston, SC / Mayor Miro Weinberger, City of Burlington, VT / Mayor Dennis Coombs, City of Longmont, CO / Mayor John P “Jack” Seiler, City of Fort Lauderdale, FL / Mayor Christopher Cabaldon, City of West Sacramento, CA / Mayor Jake Mackenzie, City of Rohnert Park, CA / Mayor Allan Ekberg, City of Tukwila, WA / Mayor Hillary Schieve, City of Reno, NV / Mayor Allen Joines, City of Winston Salem, NC / Mayor Mark Stodola, City of Little Rock, AR / Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, City of Tucson, AZ / Mayor Edward O’Brien, City of West Haven, CT / Mayor William “Bill” V. Bell, City of Durham, NC / Mayor Jon Mitchell, City of New Bedford, MA / Mayor Patrick Wojahn, City of College Park, MD / Mayor Jim B. Clarke, Culver City, CA / Mayor Jeffrey Z. Slavin, Town of Somerset, MD / Mayor Christopher Taylor, City of Ann Arbor, MI / Mayor Kathy Sheehan, City of Albany, NY / Mayor Matt Larson, City of Snoqualmie, WA / Mayor Madeline Rogero, City of Knoxville, TN / Mayor David Kaptain, City of Elgin, IL / Mayor Wade Troxell, City of Fort Collins, CO / Mayor Helene Schneider, City of Santa Barbara, CA / Mayor Robert Garcia, City of Long Beach, CA / Mayor Smith Joseph, City of North Miami, FL / Mayor Lou La Monte, City of Malibu, CA / Mayor Jim Cason, City of Coral Gables, FL

Last updated 7am PT on February 14,  2017.

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Climate Mayors Letter to President Barack Obama

April 15, 2016

President Barack Obama

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Obama,

As mayors committed to leading the fight against climate change, we believe the recent Aliso Canyon gas leak has pointed out the challenges facing communities where similar oil and gas infrastructure is found. Each of our cities shares concerns about these facilities, including health and safety, as well as the methane released from natural gas and oil production, consumption, storage, and transport. We have come together through the Mayors’ National Climate Action Agenda (MNCAA) to support action on climate change. Given that methane is a potent, short lived climate pollutant–84 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the short-term—we write to you today.

First, thank you for your March 10 commitment to ensuring that the U.S. EPA moves forward expeditiously on rules to limit methane emissions from new sources, per your commitment last summer, and critically, from existing sources of oil and gas production infrastructure. This action is vitally important as we need rules that address methane leaks throughout the entire life-cycle of oil and gas, including both production and consumption. Such rules would not only have a climate benefit, but they would reduce the costly waste of energy resources. These rules would also serve to cut the toxic soup of air contaminants that are released alongside methane not just from oil and gas production, but from their transportation and storage as well. This is a risk that threatens every city. However, the climate benefits from these rules can be undermined by lack of oversight elsewhere in the value chain, and lagging advancement of renewable energy and alternative forms of storage of energy. Therefore, we are asking for your leadership in rapidly addressing these issues in two additional ways:

1. Direct the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to add regulation of oil and gas storage facilities along with interstate pipelines. 
To date, storage facilities and interstate transportation infrastructure have been overlooked. The risk of such a gap in oversight has been highlighted most recently by the disaster at Aliso Canyon in Los Angeles where a gaswell leaked more methane than ever experienced in the United States and led to the emergency relocation of over 5,000 residents in the neighboring communities. Most leaks aren’t as big as Aliso Canyon, but they add up to a much larger problem in aggregate.

2. Research energy storage technologies to pair with renewables.
We ask that you enlist the expertise of the Department of Energy to study alternatives for existing natural gas storage facilities. Namely, we propose a redoubled emphasis on energy storage technologies, including battery storage, pumped hydro storage, and compressed air storage among other methods, which can make intermittent renewable energy production technologies more viable throughout the day. This technology would allow for the continued use of existing infrastructure, but serve as a much safer and cleaner strategy for addressing peak energy demand in comparison to natural gas-fired generation. Financing should also be made available to cities to help them move buildings and homes toward clean technologies such as battery storage paired with grid-tied solar installations.

Thankfully, in the wake of the leak at Aliso Canyon, U.S. Secretary of Energy Moniz announced on April 1 the Interagency Task Force on Natural Gas Storage Safety. We ask for your support in ensuring the task force addresses both these matters, and other related issues they identify. Please know we stand ready to help support and contribute to the work of the task force if and as possible. We understand that our economy will continue to rely on fossil fuels for the near future. However, the oil and gas industry must not imperil our air quality, our public health, and our climate through leaks and venting. The public relies on all of us to make decisions that protect their health and welfare.

Sincerely,

Mayor Eric Garcetti, City of Los Angeles / Mayor Steve Skadron, City of Aspen / Mayor Steve Adler, City of Austin / Mayor Tom Bates, City of Berkeley / Mayor Suzanne Jones, City of Boulder / Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Mayor of Chicago / Mayor Michael Hancock, City of Denver / Mayor Muriel Bowser, District of Columbia / Mayor Sly James, City of Kansas City / Mayor Bill de Blasio, City of New York / Mayor Libby Shaaf, City of Oakland / Mayor Charlie Hales, City of Portland

cc: Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / Anthony Foxx, Secretary of U.S. Department of Transportation / Ernest Moniz, Secretary of U.S. Department of Energy / Marie Therese Dominguez, Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation

Climate Mayors Letter to President Obama to Address Urgent Climate Issues in Paris During COP21 and Further GHG Reductions at Home

In June 2015, almost 30 mayors wrote to President Barack Obama as a call to action on international climate issues in Paris during COP21 and a request for further GHG reductions at home. The force behind the letter was a co-creation of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Houston Mayor Annise Parker, and former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. Here is our letter and our list of signatories:

June 18, 2015

President Barack Obama

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President: As Mayors of 27 cities representing almost 20 million people, we write to thank you for your leadership on climate mitigation and resilience. As you said in your State of the Union speech, “No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.”We are writing to call on you to act in the best interests of the American people and fight for the strongest possible climate agreement at the upcoming 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris, and for federal action to establish binding national greenhouse gas emissions reductions here at home. The United States can and should be the leader in the transition to a clean energy economy. To support your leadership and assist you and the U.S. delegation in reaching the strongest possible agreement, we are launching a campaign today to engage with our constituents, elected officials and other stakeholders to help achieve these strong outcomes at the national and international levels, while building on municipal leadership on climate change. As Mayors, we understand that we are stronger working together.

That is why we have come together and created the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda (MNCAA) to help lead the way to a solution to global climate change. A changing and variable climate has tremendous implications for the livability, competitiveness and resilience of communities across the country. The extreme weather events we have all increasingly experienced in recent years and the future projections we face make it clear that we all share a common risk and commitment to safeguarding our communities. The MNCAA is a mayor-to-mayor initiative to raise the collective voice of leading mayors, demonstrate the essential role of cities in working towards climate solutions, and build political will for U.S. leadership. This initiative, established by the Mayors of Houston, Los Angeles and Philadelphia, includes the undersigned, and will continue to grow. The negotiations in Paris will be as challenging as they are critical to our cities’ environmental health and economic prosperity. Cities across the country are already taking the lead. The cities we represent are working to take responsible steps to curb emissions and plan for the changing climate. Many of our cities have reached Kyoto commitments far ahead of states and the national government, and cities across the country are committing to binding targets, creating standardized inventories and climate action plans and laying the ground work for a municipal offset protocol. But we cannot act alone.

We need the federal government to provide a path forward to making meaningful reductions in carbon pollution while preparing for the impacts of climate change. Despite the dangerous/irresponsible stalemate in Congress, climate change is not a policy debate in communities all across the United States. The effects of a changing climate are presenting a clear and present threat. Extreme weather is presenting itself more regularly, though it takes many forms—from droughts in the west, wildfires in the intermountain states, to flooding and snow storms in the east and coastal erosion in the Gulf states. Momentum is building for international coordination. COP21 represents a prime opportunity for American leadership. We recognize that local governments have a major role to play in reducing greenhouse gas levels. We are encouraged that there is interest on the part of COP 21 for having language in the final agreement that specifically pertains to cities.

The time for strong U.S. action is now. We look forward to standing with you here at home and in Paris to bring leadership and focus to the reality of climate change and to urge national dialogue and action.

Sincerely,

ANN ARBOR MAYOR CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR / ASPEN MAYOR STEVE SKADRON / AUSTIN MAYOR STEVE ADLER / ATLANTA MAYOR KASIM REED / BERKELEY MAYOR TOM BATES / BOULDER MAYOR MATT APPELBAUM / CHARLOTTE MAYOR DAN CLODFELTER / COLUMBUS MAYOR MICHAEL COLEMAN / DENVER MAYOR MICHAEL HANCOCK / FORT COLLINS MAYOR WADE TROXELL / HOUSTON MAYOR ANNISE PARKER / KANSAS CITY MAYOR SLY JAMES / LOS ANGELES MAYOR ERIC GARCETTI / MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR BETSY HODGES / OAKLAND MAYOR LIBBY SCHAAF / ORLANDO MAYOR BUDDY DYER / PARK CITY MAYOR JACK THOMAS / PHILADELPHIA MAYOR MICHAEL NUTTER / PHOENIX MAYOR GREG STANTON / PORTLAND MAYOR CHARLIE HALES / SALT LAKE CITY MAYOR RALPH BECKER / SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR ED LEE / SAN JOSE MAYOR SAM LICCARDO / SANTA MONICA MAYOR KEVIN MCKEOWN / SEATTLE MAYOR ED MURRAY / SOMERVILLE MAYOR JOE CURTATONE / TACOMA MAYOR MARILYN STRICKLAND