How Republicans blocked cities from advancing climate solutions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "Activists across the nation, even right here in Florida, are pursuing bans on natural gas as an energy source," said Josie Tomkow, a Florida state representative who introduced a 2021 preemption bill that is complicating city campaigns for clean energy.
55% : As governors and legislatures have gone red, preemption has helped them achieve "deregulation without replacement," says Richard Briffault, a Columbia Law School professor who studies local governance.
50% : It has been advanced by the National Rifle Association to restrict gun regulations in cities.
45% : "Other incredibly harmful industries have followed this idea of preempting other forms of regulation, through agreements that looked like they were positive, but what they really did was restrict future regulatory legislation and action," Brandt says.
43% : In 2019, the chair of the nation's top natural gas trade group, the American Gas Association, suggested that the industry was under siege from environmental regulation.

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