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Mass., eight other states to sharply cut power plant carbon dioxide emissions
2013-02-07 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: Massachusetts and eight other Northeast states are nearly halving the amount of carbon dioxide power plants are allowed to emit - a dramatic reduction that is expected to bring in hundreds of millions of dollars to the state while combatting global warming. The revision of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative agreement comes four years after the nine-state program first put in place a cap aimed at curbing emissions of the key heat-trapping gas in order to slow manmade climate change. "This...
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