“With Trump indicating that he will withdraw from climate change leadership, the rest of the global community is looking to California, as one of the world’s<br />largest economies, to take the lead,” said Mario Molina, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist from Mexico who advises nations on climate change policy.<br />“China is committed to establishing a cap-and-trade this year, and we are looking for expertise across the world as we design our program — and we are looking closely at the California experience,” said Dongquan He, a vice president of Energy Foundation China, an organization<br />that works with the Chinese government on climate change issues<br />Fighting Trump on Climate, California Becomes a Global Force -<br />By CORAL DAVENPORT and ADAM NAGOURNEYMAY 23, 2017<br />LOS ANGELES — The environmental ministers of Canada<br />and Mexico went to San Francisco last month to sign a global pact — drafted largely by California — to lower planet-warming greenhouse pollution.<br />But of Mr. Brown’s push to expand California’s environmental policies to the country<br />and the world, Mr. Pruitt said, “That’s not federalism — that’s a political agenda hiding behind federalism.”<br />“Is it federalism to impose your policy on other states?” Mr. Pruitt asked in a recent interview in his office.<br />In an interview, he said the president’s action was “a colossal mistake and defies science.”<br />“Erasing climate change may take place in Donald Trump’s mind, but nowhere else,” Mr. Brown said.<br />But in the meantime, over a dozen other states have adopted California’s auto emissions standards — and Mr. Brown is betting<br />that the sheer size of that market will be enough to make the Trump administration reconsider any effort to roll back the California waiver.
