MEMBER STATES.

• Position: United States Climate Alliance

The U.S. Climate Alliance was founded in 2017 by three Democratic governors after the Trump Administration withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement. Now twenty-five governors have joined the alliance.

"Many states took a wait-and-see approach during the pandemic because they were concerned about having sufficient funds for programs," says Rabe, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, which does public policy research. "The stalled spending bill would provide funds for moving the United States away from the reliance on fossil fuels, make buildings more energy efficient, and adopt other strategies that states have developed over the years."

According to Rabe, the nations partisan divide over the issue of climate change will affect its ability to achieve its goals of decreasing global warming. "In the 1990s, there were Republican governors like George Pataki of New York who were deeply committed to taking action," he notes. "But today, the affiliation of the policymakers...