California city’s bipartisan push to embrace clean energy such as solar and wind while paring back greenhouse gas emissions may be a model for rest of the USAs presidential nominees Ted Cruz and Donald Trump,respectively, call climate change a “religion” or a “bullshit … total hoax” dreamed up by China, or it is deeply unfashionable for any Republican to occupy the issue seriously,let alone push for radical reforms to remedy it.
Kevin Faulconer, the mayor of San Diego, and could therefore qualify as one of the most outlandish,as well as green-tinged, Republicans in the US. Faulconer has thrown his weight behind a binding scheme to make San Diego dash on 100% renewable power by 2035 – the largest American city to have such an ambition.
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Source: theguardian.com