Posted on 07/06/2007 10:31:32 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
NJ poised to enact comprehensive anti-global warming law
By ANGELA DELLI SANTI, Associated Press Writer (Published: July 6, 2007)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Al Gore, the Former Vice President turned environmental activist, will be on hand Friday when Gov. Jon S. Corzine signs legislation requiring the Garden State to achieve ambitious reductions in emissions of global-warming gases.
New Jersey will become the second state, behind only California, to pass a comprehensive greenhouse gas-reduction law.
"This is the strictest global warming law in the country for two reasons," said David Pringle, campaign director of the New Jersey Environmental Federation. "Because of the mandatory emissions reductions and because of a provision that says out-of-state power producers can't move power through New Jersey without meeting New Jersey standards."
The signing of New Jersey's "Global Warming Response Act" was to take place at The Meadowlands sports complex Friday afternoon, the day before a series of concerts around the world drawing attention to global warming, including one at The Meadowlands in New Jersey that Gore planned to attend.
The legislation requires the state to reduce global warming gases to 1990 levels by 2020, and to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions do not exceed 80 percent of 2006 levels by 2050.
Emissions from fossil fuels, such as coal and gasoline, is a leading cause of global warming. The burning of heat-trapping gases is causing temperatures around the world to rise, glaciers to melt, and sea levels to rise.
Critics of the New Jersey law argued that it would hurt the state's energy industry and that the act contained no specific proposals to lower emissions. The measure nonetheless enjoyed widespread bipartisan support in the Legislature, passing easily before lawmakers recessed for the summer and advancing to the governor's desk.
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It's a Good Thing we're not burning them cold-trapping gasses.
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you people are loons out there...
LOL! Better start getting ready to pay sky high increases in just about every sector, and don’t expect to pass it along to us, dumbass.
Better to buy a bicycle, buy a horse, and learn to rub two sticks together for heat.
I have no doubt they will achieve their target...by driving every last private sector business out of the state, and all of the talented people will follow. New Jersey will be a giant suburb of Camden.
This only aides New Jersey in losing its population. Count on 20,000 moving out by 2009 because of this. And those were the 20,000 “working” Jersey folks...who paid taxes.
As long as my state doesnt join their suicide pact I could care less. The more businesses they run away the more for somebody else,
Can't do that. The horse emits methane, and the sticks CO2.
That’s funny. You need a gas mask to drive down the NJ Turnpike, where the sky is orange in the summertime. Surreal place, like a Robert Heinlein novel.
Corzine signing onto this is like putting Slick Willie in charge of a teenage abstinence program....
God how I hate this state.
Time for Virginia to start a serious recruiting campaign for NJ’s industries to move here.
And here I thought NY was the land of the control freaks. NJ has had this state beat ever since they tried to regulate the way eggs are cooked in restaurants and it’s been downhill ever since.
The whole frikkin’ world has slid completely off its cracker.
And, son thats the reason the power is out and were sweating to death. It's not Global Warming, it's our jack-ass State Gov't. LOL
I hope New Jersey residents enjoy using coal-oil lamps to light their homes.
The "out-of-state power producers" should just disconnect NJ from the grid and let them generate their own power. The dirty little secret is that the east coast receives most of it's power from a series of coal fired plants along the Ohio river!
Regards,
GtG
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
1. Son graduates from high school.
2. We move.
Good-bye
“I hope New Jersey residents enjoy using coal-oil lamps to light their homes.”
Coal-oil lamps are a no-no. They leave a carbon footprint.
Hmmm... To pull that one off, Corzine must have repealed the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution. That's a neat trick - wonder how he did it...
They will start with the Gov. and other elected theives riding bikes instead of limos at 100 mph.
Wipe your feet!
Regards,
GtG
PS I was having a hard time deciding between coal oil and whale oil since either would drive the tree huggers to distraction but I kinda like whales so coal oil it is!
I live in NJ ..The ONLY laws they pass are those that will somehow , someway separate the public from their money . My girlfriend works for the local Democratic govt. She tell me they are drooling over the possibilities of how they can get money from the citizens over the Global Warming scare. They KNOW it’s bullsh*t but they see new vistas for getting tax money to make themselves RICH RICH RICH!! Nero himself would blush over the corruption in NJ.
All the Northeastern states are like that. Too many liberals.
NJ is especially corrupt. NJ has been a FAMILY run business for years ( if you catch my drift )
Yup I know. I’ve got a ton of relatives in NJ who have been living there since the family got off the boat at Ellis Island. They’ve talked about the business running the state.
The provision that “out-of-state power producers cannot move power through New Jersey without meeting New Jersey standards” is probably unconsitituional, as it interfers with interstate commerce.
I would like to see them keep me from moving my car, fully tanked up. They can’t control drugs; they can’t keep out all the illegal immigrants. And yet they think that they can control energy, and “save the planet”?
Corzine and his ilk are very dangerous lunatics, indeed! He doesn’t just need a seat belt: he needs a straight-jacket.
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