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04/22/2008
Governors Call for Federal-State Climate Change Partnership
U.S. Governors Including Deval Patrick Sign Declaration on Climate Change
General News
Posted by: Susan Altman
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 18, 2008 (ENS) - Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell today led 20 Democrat and Republican governors from across the country in signing the Governors' Declaration on Climate Change at the 2008 Conference on Climate Change at Yale University.
The Declaration is founded on three principles. First, that a federal-state partnership is critical to success. Second, that state-based climate action plans and programs have paved the way for cost-effective reductions of greenhouse gases and they deserve continued support. And third, that rewarding and encouraging meaningful and mandatory federal and state climate action is key to combating global warming.