US mayors endorse 100% clean energy in repudiation of Donald Trump's climate change stance

Mayors from more than 250 US cities have voted to transition to 100 per cent renewable energy in the next two decades, in a repudiation of the environmental policies of President Donald Trump.
The mayors voted on nine different energy resolutions at the United States Conference of Mayors, the 85th such gathering of leaders from more than 1,400 cities.
A key Conference resolution pledged support for “establishing a community-wide target of powering communities with 100 percent clean, renewable energy by 2035,” as a means of meeting the targets set by the Paris Agreement – a historic environmental pact from which Mr Trump recently removed
the United States.
Just weeks before, mayors of more than 300 cities had pledged to honour the commitments of the climate accord, even if the Trump administration wouldn’t.
At the conference on Monday, mayors also voted ask Congress and the Trump administrative for risk management programmes to combat the effects of climate change, such as flooding from sea level rise. They also pledged to support more investment in wind energy from all levels of government.
"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," Columbia, South Carolina, Mayor Steve Benjamin, a co-sponsor of the resolution, said in a statement.