Following President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, the city of Worcester reaffirmed its commitment to battling climate change locally by joining a national coalition of mayors for environmental consciousness.
Mayor Joseph M. Petty on Friday joined more than 80 other mayors across the country to sign onto a U.S. Climate Mayors statement, which pledges to uphold the commitments to goals laid out in the Paris agreement. Trump withdrew the U.S. from the international agreement last week.
City Manager Edward Augustus said Worcester is already investing in green technology and initiatives he said will benefit both the environment and taxpayers. The city plans to provide infrastructure improvements for its aging buildings, replace streetlights and every lightbulb in the DCU Center with LEDs, and install solar panels at the schools.
Worcester will flip the switch on what will be New England’s largest municipal solar farm on the site of the former Greenwood Street landfill this summer.
