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National League of Cities highlights importance of federal support
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The National League of Cities (NLC) is asking elected US officials to submit a statement about why climate action is important to them and what they could accomplish with stronger federal partnership. It is also asking them to share how climate change is already impacting their communities.

The organisation said: “NLC has consistently called for urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across a broad sector of the economy and...