The Political Climate: an ongoing commentary on the NH Primary and Climate Change

Solutions to global warming are spreading from coast to coast.  Well, sort of.  It’s one sea to another shining sea, but with just about everything in the middle still holding back, the issue of global warming still has a long way to go before it’s truly a united effort.

Fortunately, California and the Northeast haven’t let the couple thousand mile vacuum deter them from working together.  This article in the Concord Monitor reports on the new partnership between California and the Northeast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) states–Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, and Vermont.  The basis of the partnership between these states is to create a cap and trade system allowing power plants (that beginning in 2009 will have a carbon dioxide emission limit) to trade “credits” based on the amount of emissions they do or do not produce.  California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger hopes the “cooperation can be a model to the rest of the states and to other countries.”