Hawaii becomes first state to legally sign into Paris Accord

[redBadger]

[quote]Nearly 1,500 US local governments and companies have vowed to uphold the Paris climate deal, but Hawaii is the first state to make its defiance legally binding. Governor David Ige signed Senate Bill 559, committing the state to keep up its end, despite US President Trump opting out of the 195-nation deal. "Hawaii and other Pacific Islands are already experiencing the impact of rising sea levels and natural disasters," said Ige. "That means we need to be first when it comes to creating solutions."
Hawaii passed the law for both environmental and economic reasons. Referring to the state's massive tourism industry, Ige's advisor Scott Glenn told Reuters, "when climate change is threatening our reefs and threatening our weather ... then it's threatening our economy, too."
"Hawaii is seeing the impacts firsthand," Ige said. "Tides are getting higher, biodiversity is shrinking, coral is bleaching, coastlines are eroding, weather is becoming extreme." Half of the states coral reefs have been destroyed by CO2 bleaching and "flooding happens on roads where it never did before," a resident told the LA Times. [/quote]

[url]https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/08/hawaii-defies-trump-with-law-upholding-paris-climate-accord/[/url]

Surprised this has not been posted. Hoping other states come together to sign in independently.

[Ajacks]

[QUOTE=redBadger;52329082][URL]https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/08/hawaii-defies-trump-with-law-upholding-paris-climate-accord/[/URL]

Surprised this has not been posted. Hoping other states come together to sign in independently.[/QUOTE]

Ironically Oahu recently denied the funding to build a new more efficient powerplant despite a lot of protest, because now, when the trade winds stop and change direction, the current horribly polluting coal power plant causes a horrible layer of smog to coat Pearl City and make its way to Honolulu and nestles up against the center of the island. Normally the trade winds take all the nasty stuff out over the pacific where it doesn't bother anyone. Nobody cares when all the excess pollution is simply blowing quickly offshore.

[BryBreadmin]

If California goes through with it and we get New York on board as well we'll be in pretty decent shape.

[Sableye]

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;52329168]If California goes through with it and we get New York on board as well we'll be in pretty decent shape.[/QUOTE]

still gotta get texas, ohio, and a handful of deep red states

[Flicky]

[QUOTE=Sableye;52329659]still gotta get texas, ohio, and a handful of deep red states[/QUOTE]

As unlikely as getting the red states on board is, some of the states of the US acting under the Paris Accords is better than none of the US.