Cities tried to lead the charge on climate action. Most of them are behind.

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By Emily PontecorvoOct 22, 2020, 3:23 pm164 pts
Back in 2006, when George W. Bush was president and the Paris Agreement was still a decade away, the city of Tucson, Arizona, made a modest plan to do something about climate change. It set a goal to reduce city-wide greenhouse gas emissions 7 percent below 1990 levels, and gave itself a generous 14 years to do…

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