The governors of Massachusetts and Vermont are urging the Trump administration to maintain the nation’s commitment to the Paris climate accord of 2015, writing that “the impacts of climate change have already been felt in our states.” “We have seen the impacts of rising sea levels, increasingly severe flooding, heat waves, droughts, and decline in snow cover,” Governor Charlie Baker and fellow Republican Governor Phil Scott of Vermont wrote in a letter sent Wednesday to Rick Perry, the US energy secretary.
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