Regulating the CO2 Emissions of New Development
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.
[…] 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. […]
[…] County: birthplace of Microsoft and Amazon; one of the nation’s first municipalities to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions associated with development; former stomping grounds of […]
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