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Governors of 10 Eastern States Form Regional Approach to Global Warming.

The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)

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Byline: Stephanie Ebbert

Jul. 25--Governor Mitt Romney and five other Republican governors this week joined forces to tackle an issue that environmentalists say their fellow Republican, President Bush, has ducked: Curbing carbon dioxide emissions to control global warming. A total of 10 eastern states, convened by New York Governor George E. Pataki, plan to spend two years developing a regional market-based system to limit carbon emissions, in an acknowledgment that global warming is a current problem.

"Climate change is beginning to affect our natural resources and . . . now is the time to take action towards climate protection," Romney wrote in a letter to Pataki, sent Monday.

While the White House has acknowledged the effects of pollutants on climate change, it has downplayed the influence and questioned whether natural trends are more at play. Early in his administration, Bush angered environmentalists by backing out of the Kyoto accord -- an international treaty that called for the largest industrial nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Last month, the Bush administration was criticized for killing language on global warming in an EPA report on the state of the environment.

Yesterday, the White House announced a 10-year study on global warming that some derided as delaying action and obscuring the causes of a well-documented problem. The first goal of the White House study is to review the "natural variability" in climate change.

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