Mayors Back 100% Renewable Energy, Vow to Fill Climate Leadership Void

"The U.S. Conference of Mayors also voted to support quick electrification of vehicles and urged Congress to back the Clean Power Plan and Paris climate agreement."

"As the nation's mayors closed their annual meeting on Monday in Miami Beach, they sent a clear signal that cities are looking for action on climate change and are eager to fill a policy gap created by the Trump administration.

The United States Conference of Mayors, which includes both Republican an Democratic mayors from cities across the nation, adopted a series of resolutions that are far more assertive than federal climate policy, including a pledge supporting cities' adoption of 100 percent renewable energy by 2035.

'We are showing the world that cities and mayors can and will lead the transition away from fossil fuels to 100 percent clean, renewable energy,' said Columbia, South Carolina, Mayor Steve Benjamin, a co-sponsor of the resolution, in a statement."

Nicholas Kusnetz reports for InsideClimate News June 26, 2017.