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At a global climate summit in San Francisco on Thursday, California Governor Jerry Brown didn’t mince words when asked how he thought historians would remember President Trump’s climate legacy: “A liar, criminal, fool. Pick your choice.”
“When Trump says, in effect, ‘We like more methane going into the air,’ that is highly destructive,” he said. “Very highly destructive.”
Brown was referring to a new report from the New York Times about Trump administration plans to cut Obama-era methane emission standards. Methane, a greenhouse gas, is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
When asked how historians would remember President Trump on climate change and the environment, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown quipped: "A liar, criminal, fool. Pick your choice." https://t.co/fcGkacwUJn pic.twitter.com/jXh9MERQdy
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California long been one of the country’s environmental leaders, at times deliberately opposing the Trump administration. Just this week, Gov. Brown issued an executive order directing the state to achieve a zero-carbon footprint by 2045 and signed into law SB100, which aims to make the state’s electricity supply totally emissions-free by the same year.
Read more about the global climate summit, hosted by Brown in San Francisco this week, here.
