Saturday, February 13, 2010

Arizona Rejects Climate Change Tax Agenda

The Foundry reports:
Arizona will no longer participate in a groundbreaking attempt to limit greenhouse-gas emissions across the West, a change in policy by Gov. Jan Brewer that will include a review of all the state’s efforts to combat climate change.
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State officials said the policy shift was rooted in concerns that the controversial emissions plan would slow the state’s economic recovery.
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The governor’s order is another blow to the Western Climate Initiative, a group of seven states and four Canadian provinces that joined forces in 2007 after growing impatient with the federal government to address climate change.