Hundreds walk in L.B. climate march
Originally published in
Long Beach Herald
Hundreds of people gathered on the Long Beach boardwalk on April 29 to walk in a climate march to protest the Trump administration’s environmental policies, to spread awareness of climate change and to promote the use of renewable energy to replace fossil fuels.
The march coincided with a number of other protests around the country — including one in Washington, D.C. — collectively called the People’s Climate March. The demonstrations, a nation-wide resistance to President Trump’s rollbacks of environmental measures, including cutting the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget by 31 percent, took place on his 100th day in office.
[...] State Sen. Todd Kaminsky addressed the protesters before they began marching. “I was proud to see so many Long Islanders take a stand to preserve our environment,” he said afterward in a statement. “In the absence of federal action to protect our drinking water and prevent climate change, New York must take the lead in creating a green, sustainable future. I — along with the hundreds of people who marched today — will keep fighting to increase investments in renewable energy, pass measures to mitigate climate change and protect our drinking water.”
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