The heartland has spoken. Governors from six Midwestern states and the premier of Manitoba, Canada, signed a regional agreement to cap greenhouse gas emissions last week. With similar trading schemes already in place in the north-east and west coast of the US, that means 48 per cent of America’s population is now covered.
The Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord is the third regional emissions agreement initiated in the US in recent years, in the absence of a federal emissions reduction programme. “We can’t afford to wait for the federal government. Our environment and security challenges are too great,” says Matt…
