WEST COAST CLIMATE PLAN LOSING STEAM; ACTIVISTS EYE STATE LAWS

March 11, 2005
Activists in at least one West Coast state are beginning to propose climate change legislation as an alternative to a languishing regional strategy. Environmentalists and state sources say California, Washington and Oregon have made little progress in recent months in advancing the multi-state climate change plan. Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) appears unlikely to make the West Coast Governors' Global Warming Initiative a priority in her administration because of a fear of backlash from industry, activists say, adding that the...


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