‘Blue’ states stake own energy stance ( Responding to voters)

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........"The states are creating energy efficiency requirements for light bulbs and household appliances, limiting power plant and automobile output linked to global warming, and requiring the use of renewable energy, such as wind and solar.".......

‘Blue’ states stake own energy stance ( Responding to voters)
Upset with federal efficiency rules, regional governments draft their own

By Justin Blum
The Washington Post
Updated: 11:14 p.m. ET Jan. 21, 2006

Democratic-leaning states increasingly are regulating energy use and emissions, working around a GOP-controlled federal government that state officials say has not done enough.

The states are creating energy efficiency requirements for light bulbs and household appliances, limiting power plant and automobile output linked to global warming, and requiring the use of renewable energy, such as wind and solar.

Leading the effort are "blue" states that voted Democratic in the 2004 presidential election. Even some of those states that have Republican governors, such as California and Connecticut, are making their own rules......

[rodeodance]

1. "The left is controlling that agenda,"-- about time--good for them.

"In a way, the left is controlling that agenda," said Amy Myers Jaffe, associate director of the energy program at Rice University in Houston. "They're just implementing it at the community and state level."

[Johnny Noshoes]

3. This is how we are going to have to take it back.

One school board, one city council, etc. at a time.

[BR_Parkway]

5. Which is pretty much how they took it from us in the first place

[unhappycamper]

2. link? n/t

[gizmo1979]

4. Repugs want states rights

they got em.How long before they start ruling over the states?