http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/
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New Jersey governor signs toughest U.S. carbon law
Sat Jul 7, 2007 5:13PM EDT
By Timothy Gardner
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EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (Reuters) – New Jersey became on Friday the first U.S. state to mandate sharp greenhouse gas reductions by 2050 to help fight climate change.
The law, signed by Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat, makes New Jersey the latest state to bypass the Bush administration by setting mandatory regulations to fight emissions of gases that scientists link to global warming.
“We want to send a message to Washington. Wake up, get with the program and start doing something about greenhouse gases,” Corzine told reporters at Giants Stadium on the eve of former Vice President Al Gore’s international Live Earth concerts.
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The New Jersey Business and Industry Association opposes the law, saying it would raise fees and give sweeping powers to state agencies.
The law also seeks to deal with emissions from vehicles, the largest source of the emissions in New Jersey, by enhancing public transportation, car-pooling and the shipping of goods by rail instead of truck.
But even environmentalists said the effort would be a tough fight as renewable energy currently only provides a tiny portion of the state’s power.
“We need to be careful of congratulating ourselves on this legislation because the hard work is yet to be done,” said Doug O’Malley, the field director for Environment New Jersey, a green group that helped form the law.
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OK here’s my prediction. It will have the opposite effect. Whenever the gooferment gets in front of some parade or other, it leads us “off the proverbial cliff”.
So where is the construction of kool cool nuclear plants?
I’ll be watching for all the state cars that go 55 to save gas! Hypocrites. Did you notice how many clebs jet setted to the save the earth concerts. And, the politicians aren’t giving up anything.
But we can all pay higher taxes and spend more for less. That’s OK. For us little serfs!
Argh!
A plague on all of them.
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