A little belated, but this has only just crossed our radar. New Jersey has become the third US state to adopt legislation to limit its emissions.
From the New Scientist:
In the absence of leadership on the federal level, the burden of reducing greenhouse gases has now fallen upon the states," said Democrat governor Jon Corzine. "I'm proud that New Jersey is one of the first among a handful of states that are leading the nation to combat global warming, and I hope more states will follow in our model.
New Jersey follows in the steps of California and Hawaii, and eight other states are considering going solo on greenhouse gas emission caps.
According to the new law, New Jersey emissions will have to be brought down to 1990 levels by 2020, which is the same target as California adopted in September 2006. For this to happen, the state will have to lower its emissions by about 20%. But the NJ legislation pushes things a big step further, and requires 2050 emissions to be 80% below 2006 levels.
Three states down, 47 to go.
