Commentary: Global Climate Action Summit to highlight local initiatives

Hope springs eternal. So does Action, as state and local governments across the country and around the world prepare to tout their climate change initiatives at the Sept. 12-14 Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) in San Francisco. They’ll be joined by representatives from several of the 196 countries endorsing the U.N. Paris Agreement on Climate Change.Despite the Trump administration’s threat to officially withdraw the U.S. from the accord, community leaders from Utah to Uganda are