The article shows that some states will not sit idly by while Trump ignores climate change. Lawmakers from nine states announced on Wednesday that they would be forming a coalition to help pass carbon pricing at the local level, citing the importance of state-level policies in the face of federal inaction on climate. Only California now has a law to restrict carbon from being dumped into the atmosphere. However, legislators from the nine participating states — New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington are planning to create such a law.