CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump invoked the people of Pittsburgh to defend his climate change decision Thursday [6-1-17], and the city’s mayor bristled in response.
Explaining his choice to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement, Trump said: ‘I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.’
Pittsburgh’s Democratic Mayor Bill Peduto, in an interview on CNN’s ‘The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,’ said Trump was off-base to point to his choice as benefiting the city — in part because Pittsburgh swung strongly for Hillary Clinton.
‘The city of Pittsburgh voted for Hillary Clinton with nearly 80% of the vote,’ Peduto said. ‘He may be talking about all of western Pennsylvania, but it’s a far cry from being Pittsburgh.’…
‘Pittsburgh is the example,’ Peduto said. ‘We were that city that China is like today where the smoke was so, filled the air so much, that the streetlights would stay on 24 hours.’
Peduto told CNN he would issue an executive order Friday pledging Pittsburgh would follow through on carbon reduction goals.
It’s up to cities — not the federal government — to ensure carbon emission guidelines are being followed, according to the mayor.”
-Eli Watkins, “Pittsburgh mayor hits back after Trump invokes city in climate speech,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 2, 2017 01:09am