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Call for market-base climate controls. (Outlook).(U.S states call for federal measures to limit...

Publication: Energy
Date: Saturday, June 22 2002

In a July 17, 2002 letter (seehttp://www.ago.state.ma.us/press_rel/climate.pdf) to President Bush, the attorneys general of Alaska, California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont called for strong federal measures--including market-based mechanisms--to limit greenhouse gas emissions. The officials praise the Administration for its report, "U.S. Climate Action Report 2002," releas

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