EPA-State Pact Marks Growing Interest In Energy-Environment Linkage

EPA has launched a new partnership with California, New York, and nine other states to reduce greenhouse gases and help meet federal clean air goals by aggressively implementing a wide range of clean energy policies and programs, the latest development in an emerging trend among states to win environmental gains through cost-effective energy reductions. While the energy-related programs being pushed by states would provide regulators only a small part of the emission reductions they need to attain EPA's national air...