Obama to speak at Lake Tahoe environmental summit

President Obama will travel to Lake Tahoe later this month to speak about his efforts to protect the environment.

{mosads}Obama will headline an annual summit on Aug. 31 designed review efforts to protect Lake Tahoe, the iconic tourist destination on the California-Nevada border.

With just five months left in office for Obama, the speech is a chance for him to burnish his legacy on the environment and climate change.

It’s also an opportunity to counter Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who is pledging to roll back Obama’s executive actions on energy and the environment.

Trump is promising to toss out Obama’s Climate Action Plan and revisit the administration’s decision to reject the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The summit is taking place in Nevada, a presidential battleground state and also home to a competitive Senate race pitting Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto against Rep. Joe Heck (R). 

The Lake Tahoe event was first organized in the late 1990s to address problems such as declining water quality, erosion and drought, according to the office of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who hosts it.

Reid will also speak at the summit, and Las Vegas-based band The Killers will perform.