Climate change: Regional strength
Editorial in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on the Western Climate Initiative, "The keys will be to spur as many economy-powering innovations as possible, weight the rules to favor real emissions reductions over squishy, hard-to-verify offsets and to favor the public over corporations in setting emissions allocations."
The regional Western Climate Initiative will give this state and others considerable power to address global warming and fossil-fuel dependence. The states and their partners in four Canadian provinces must aim to make the biggest possible difference.
The initiative's leaders should strengthen their draft plans for a regional cap-and-trade system...

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