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In a letter dated July 17, 2002, attorneys general from 11 states challenged Bush administration policies on climate change, calling them inconsistent with a climate change report released by the U.S. Department of State in May 2002. The result of failing to mandate emissions reductions on a national basis, the attorneys general concluded, would be "state by state regulations and litigation [that] will necessarily lessen regulatory certainty and increase the ultimate costs of addressing climate change, thereby making the purported goals of the Administration's current policy illusory."
The letter, sent to President Bush by the attorneys general of Alaska, California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont, lauds the May 2002 State Department ...