Mayors Engage in Texas Sized Climate Change Fight

As California City News has regularly reported, the collective action of cities united can have as great an impact as any state government - perhaps even greater.

Whether its fighting for the protection of local revenues, control over land use decisions or, in this case, controlling green house gas emissions - cities working together can bring about - even force change - from the bottom up.

A perfect case in point is made in a recent NPR radio spot illustrating what can happen when cities take public policy into their own hands.

From National Public Radio:

Texas is the country's largest emitter of global warming gases. But the state's political leaders say climate change isn't a problem and have blocked even minor efforts to address the issue. That has prompted the mayors of some of the state's biggest cities — including influential Republicans — to take the issue into their own hands.

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