A New York politician with ten times the personal wealth of Donald Trump will not run against him for president. 9News
Michael Bloomberg will instead use his substantial chequebook to advocate for action on climate change.
"First, I will expand my support for the Beyond Coal campaign so that we can retire every single coal-fired power plant over the next 11 years. That’s not a pipe dream. We can do it. "And second, I will launch a new, even more ambitious phase of the campaign — Beyond Carbon: a grassroots effort to begin moving America as quickly as possible away from oil and gas and toward a 100 percent clean energy economy."richest man in the world, Mr Bloomberg has an estimated net worth of $51.8 billion, more than 10 times even the most generous estimates of Mr Trump's wealth., a position that made him one of the most powerful politicians in America.
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