These states will keep fighting for climate progress, Trump or no Trump

Trump has signaled he would attack Joe Biden’s climate policies any way he can, increase fossil fuel production and stymie the expansion of renewable energy.

A bipartisan coalition of governors launched the US Climate Alliance to collaborate on policies to address the crisis.

A poll found that 66 percent of Americans think that in the absence of federal climate action, their state's responsibility to step in.

17 states and the District of Columbia have adopted California 's tailpipe emissions standards.

Michigan lawmakers passed sweeping bills in 2023 , leveraging narrow Democratic majorities in the House and Senate to set goals including a 100 percent clean energy standard by 2040 .

Even states that have until recently lagged behind climate leaders are getting on board, including Midwestern states once dependent on coal.

That didn’t happen because deep-red Texas is gung-ho about renewable energy, but because renewables often make better economic sense. “The transition to a renewable energy future is unstoppable,” said Petersen , of the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator . “The genie is out of the bottle.”.