NH joins regional global warming pact.

• Position: New Hampshire - Brief article

With the stroke of a pen from Gov. John Lynch last month, New Hampshire joined the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. RGGI--a pact negotiated by Northeast governors to reduce global warming pollution from power plants in the region. CLF hailed the agreement as an "urgently needed and historic step forward in the state's fight to cut greenhouse gas emissions."

"RGGI is one of the best tools in the climate toolkit that allows us-finally-to begin to take meaningful action to solve the problem of global warming," said Melissa Hoffer, director of CLF's New Hampshire Advocacy Center. "The time to act is now. We can no longer ignore the rising cost of climate change."

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