http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE58064F20090901 Senate urged to let states keep climate plans
Tue Sep 1, 2009 5:13pm EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five states have asked U.S. Senate leaders to let them impose stricter limits on greenhouse gas emissions than what would be permitted under the climate legislation working its way though Congress, saying both levels of regulation are necessary to fight global warming.
The climate bill the House of Representatives narrowly passed in June would preempt statewide caps on greenhouse gases, while cutting total U.S. emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.
Senate leaders will reveal their version of the bill later this month and hope to vote on it later in the year.
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"States should continue to be able to adopt caps that are more stringent than federal requirements in order to ensure that the ambitious targets set by the act, and required to avoid disruptive climate change, are met," the attorneys general wrote in a letter obtained by Reuters.
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