Regulating the CO2 Emissions of New Development

Saturday, March 1, 2008 | posted by dan bertolet | 3 comments

This is huge (hat tip: Sightline):

“King County Executive Ron Sims plans to introduce legislation that would allow the county to reject or modify development projects because of their effect on global warming.”

If passed, it will be a first for the entire country. And it will have a profound impact on future development.

No doubt we will be seeing more legislation like this all across the U.S., as mitigation of global warming becomes central to everything we do.

Posted by dan bertolet on Saturday, March 1st, 2008 at 12:46 am. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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3 Responses to “Regulating the CO2 Emissions of New Development”

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    […] Governor Gregoire is going to beat King County Executive Ron Sims to it: the State legislature just passed House Bill 2815, which establishes reduction targets for C02 emissions as well as strategies for achieving these reductions. […]

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