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New Mexico U-turn on draconian environmental regulations?
I can hear the leftie screams from here in Virginia....
New Mexico, the only state besides California to move forward on comprehensive global warming regulations, is reversing course under a new Republican governor, Susana Martinez. The move threatens to cripple the Western Climate Initiative, a California-driven effort to enact a regional trading program to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
You forgot to mention that it was implemented against the N.M. Legislature's and the citizens' wishes. Which the lefties consider a feature, not a bug.
Martinez, who replaced Democrat Bill Richardson, announced on Tuesday that she is removing all members of New Mexico's Environmental Improvement Board because of what she said was its "anti-business" policies.
Good!
After a heated debate that ignored their duty to those pesky tax-paying citizens who nonetheless are expected to pay for it, the board last year approved measures to limit the emissions of the state's largest polluters and to join the regional cap-and-trade program.

Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2011-01-06
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=313334