One day after President Trump on the world stage at the UN called climate change a "con job," Governor Matt Meyer was in New York Wednesday to deliver a very different message.
Meyer was part of a roundtable discussion at Climate Week NYC, hosted by the U.S. Climate Alliance . The Alliance is a bi-partisan coalition of 24 governors of states and territories.
"The reality is that the federal government is making decisions not to lead, to leave people behind, to put communities that are at threat of flooding, at threat of pollution, at threat of continued emissions increasing... the federal government today is continually choosing billionaires over the people," Meyer said. The governor added that much is at stake for Delaware, being a low-lying coastal state.
Meyer has said in the past