Reply #3: US States Bypass Bush to Tackle Greenhouse Gas Emissions [View All]

US states bypass Bush to tackle greenhouse gas emissions

Julian Borger in Washington
Thursday August 25, 2005
The Guardian


America's north-eastern states are on the brink of a declaration of environmental independence with the introduction of mandatory controls on greenhouse gas emissions of the kind rejected by the Bush administration.

In the first regional agreement of its kind in the US, nine states are expected to announce a plan next month to freeze carbon dioxide emissions from big power stations by 2009 and then reduce them by 10% by 2020.

The region stretches from New Jersey to Maine and generates roughly the same volume of emissions as Germany.

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She added: "It's huge. It's a drumbeat, and more and more states and regions are heading down this road. It's going to change the discussion at the federal level ... It's going to take the argument off the table we can't do this because it's too expensive, there are too many obstacles."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1555945,00.html