Global Warming
Brown Pledges California's Help for Obama Paris Climate Summit Goals
The governor of the largest state in the union is on his way to the French capital to voice support for an emerging treaty on limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
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As President Barack Obama departs Paris still lacking Republican congressional support for an emerging multi-national treaty obliging the United States to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, California Governor Jerry Brown is heading to the French capital pledging that the largest U.S. state will help limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius.
Brown, a Democrat who once called himself the president of California, said states are compelled to act on climate change because congressional Republicans are tying Obama's hands.