Look to states for leadership
Boston Globe
by Scot Lehigh
04/25/06
The states have long been the laboratories of democracy -- and these days, those public-policy workshops are striving to fill a vacuum created by the federal government. From global warming to healthcare and stem cell research, the states are moving into areas where the Bush administration declines to take meaningful action. With the president basically ignoring global warming -- and administration operatives having been accused of attempting to muzzle government scientists who insist immediate measures are a must -- a number of states are trying to reduce greenhouse gases themselves. Because it is the world's 12th-largest emitter of those gases, California is crucial to that effort...
http://tinyurl.com/fayuq
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Scot Lehigh
04/25/06
The states have long been the laboratories of democracy -- and these days, those public-policy workshops are striving to fill a vacuum created by the federal government. From global warming to healthcare and stem cell research, the states are moving into areas where the Bush administration declines to take meaningful action. With the president basically ignoring global warming -- and administration operatives having been accused of attempting to muzzle government scientists who insist immediate measures are a must -- a number of states are trying to reduce greenhouse gases themselves. Because it is the world's 12th-largest emitter of those gases, California is crucial to that effort...
http://tinyurl.com/fayuq
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 26. Apr, 18:57
