{"id":80225,"date":"2017-04-28T19:25:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T23:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=80225"},"modified":"2017-04-27T20:39:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T00:39:54","slug":"schneiderman-fellow-ags-urge-trump-to-reconfirm-u-s-commitment-to-paris-climate-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=80225","title":{"rendered":"Schneiderman, fellow AGs urge Trump to reconfirm U.S. commitment to Paris Climate Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>In Letter, Coalition Of 14 Attorneys General Vow To Continue Rigorous Enforcement Of Environmental Laws<\/em>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Schneiderman: I Will Use Every Tool In My Power To Protect New Yorkers\u2019 Access To A Clean, Safe, And Healthy Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today joined a coalition of 14 Attorneys General in urging the Trump Administration to reconfirm the United States\u2019 commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement, which was adopted by countries at COP21 in Paris in December 2015. In a letter to President Trump, the Attorneys General highlighted the agreement\u2019s importance in addressing and limiting climate change and vowed to continue rigorously enforcing environmental laws in their respective states regardless of the directives from the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud to stand with my fellow Attorneys Generals in support of the Paris Agreement \u2013 because we know how essential it is to mitigating climate change\u2019s growing harm to our global health, environments, and economies,\u201d said Attorney General Schneiderman. \u201cIf the Trump Administration refuses to uphold its legal obligation to New Yorkers’ public health and environment, I am prepared to use every tool in my power to protect our people and our state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, the Attorneys General, led by Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh, urged President Trump to maintain the United States\u2019 commitment to the groundbreaking agreement:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Paris Agreement, by securing commitments from countries the world over, reflects this collective interdependency and constitutes an unprecedented global effort to address a problem threatening the well-being of everyone on Earth. The United States showed exemplary leadership in the years-long effort to secure the Paris Agreement, and our Nation should continue to lead by fulfilling its promise to abide by and implement this historic accord.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Attorneys General note in the letter that climate change is a threat to national security, the economy, and every citizen\u2019s health and well-being.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we commemorate the 47th anniversary of that first Earth Day, we confront threats to our planet greater than ever envisioned by those who sounded the alarm almost half a century ago. Climate change, if left unchecked, will lead to global environmental dislocation and disaster on a scale we likely cannot imagine or survive. Yet at the same time, we have reason to be hopeful. The Paris Agreement on climate change, negotiated under American leadership and ratified by the vast majority of the world\u2019s countries, has the potential to achieve a reversal of our current trajectory.<\/p>\n

Read the full letter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The letter was signed by the following Attorneys General: Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, the District of Columbia, and American Samoa.<\/p>\n

Attorney General Schneiderman has led a coalition of states and localities in protecting our natural resources and opposing the Trump Administration’s environmental rollbacks, including defending\u00a0\u00a0the Clean Power Plan\u00a0<\/a>against efforts to discard the plan and opposing the \u00a0Trump Administration\u2019s efforts to\u00a0delay court proceedings regarding the Clean Power Plan in the U.S. Court of Appeals<\/a>;\u00a0fighting back against the Administration’s weakening of\u00a0vehicle emission standards<\/a>; opposing President Trump\u2019s Executive Order that seeks to\u00a0eliminate the Clean Water Rule<\/a>; and suing the Administration for its delay of energy efficiency standards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Letter, Coalition Of 14 Attorneys General Vow To Continue Rigorous Enforcement Of Environmental Laws Schneiderman: I Will Use Every Tool In My Power To Protect New Yorkers\u2019 Access To A Clean, Safe, And Healthy Environment Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today joined a coalition of 14 Attorneys General in urging the Trump Administration to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}