Nobody knows it, but Bill de Blasio is America’s best climate mayor
And that’s still vastly short of what’s needed.
Pete Sikora · August 31, 2021
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De Blasio failed badly in other policy areas, but he delivered on climate. | Gage Skidmore
Pete Sikora is the Climate & Inequality Campaigns Director at New York Communities for Change.
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