Friday, December 12, 2008

Plan Adopted to Engineer 15% Cut in Emissions in 12 Years

From the AP in the LA Times

California regulators adopted the nation's first comprehensive plan to slash greenhouse gases Thursday and characterized it as a model for President-elect Barack Obama, who has pledged an aggressive national and international effort to combat global warming.The ambitious blueprint by the world's eighth-largest economy would cut the state's emissions by 15% from today's level over the next 12 years, bringing them down to 1990 levels.

Read the AP article carried by the LA Times, here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-climate12-2008dec12,0,7794111.story

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