Let Bravery and Unity Convert The Doubters
by John Laumer, Philadelphia 
on 08.23.07
The eight states that make up the Western Climate Initiative have agreed to establish a regional goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the West to 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.
The Initiative was created earlier this year by the governors of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington with a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to establish a goal by August. Each state also will participate in a multi-state emissions registry and work to design a multi-sector, market-based mechanism, such as a load-based cap-and-trade program, by August 2008.
Since February, Utah and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Manitoba have joined the Initiative. In addition, Colorado, Kansas, Nevada and Wyoming, as well as Canadian provinces Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan and the Mexican state of Sonora are participating in the effort as observers of the Western Climate Initiative's deliberations. Gov. Bill Richardson said the group's goal is to solve, not just debate, climate change.
For a look at what each of the US states are up to, see the Center For Climate Strategies interactive map here (as pictured above).
Via:: New Mexico Business Weekly and the Oregon Environmental Council.
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What!? Georgia doesn't even have plans underway?....shocker. We are always the last to embrace any kind of change. Bah!
This is one of the reasons I don't enjoy living in Georgia.
John Laumer should brush up on some geography. You shaded Arkansas (my home state) as Kansas. Kansas is the blockish state above Oklahoma (panhandle looking state).
On the WCI website, Kansas isn't mentioned in the state action list at all, so I guess it must be an error in the NM Business Weekly, and Arkansas is actually the one doing some good. (Gov. Beebe established his Governor’s Commission on Global Warming)