Jan 23, 2011 - Now that 2010 has gone down as one of history's hottest years, many states are choosing not to wait for Congress to tackle global warming and are taking their own steps to slash greenhouse gas emissions.
States are increasingly adopting stricter, energy-saving building codes, spending more money (partly federal) on energy efficiency and prodding big polluters to cut heat-trapping emissions.
"This is ground-breaking work the states are doing to provide leadership," says Kevin Kennedy of the California Air Resources Board, a state agency that approved rules in December to cut the state's current carbon dioxide emissions 15% by 2020. {continued}
Monday, January 24, 2011
States Take Steps to Slash Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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