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Climate politics: Environmentalists need to think globally, but act locally

  • 1.  Climate politics: Environmentalists need to think globally, but act locally

    Posted 03-28-2017 13:08
    Hello everybody:

    President Trump is likely to issue an executive order today to rollback climate action policies. Some highlights:

    - EPA will revisit the Clean Power Plan;
    - DOJ will not defend the legal challenge to this plan;
    - lift moratorium on coal leasing on public lands;
    - rewrite limits on methane emissions from the oil and gas industry;
    - Federal agencies not to take into account the social cost of carbon
    - and many more......

    How might environmental groups respond? Here are some ideas we published in The Conversation:

    "Climate politics: Environmentalists need to think globally, but act locally"

    https://theconversation.com/climate-politics-environmentalists-need-to-think-globally-but-act-locally-73113


    Comments are always welcome; please email them directly to me.

    Thanks,

    Aseem


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    Aseem Prakash
    Professor, Department of Political Science
    Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences
    Founding Director, UW Center for Environmental Politics
    39 Gowen Hall, Box 353530
    University of Washington
    Seattle, WA 98195-3530

    http://faculty.washington.edu/aseem/
    http://depts.washington.edu/envirpol/