IF YOU want to see where the US is headed on climate change take a look at California. Under Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger – whose proactive stance on air pollution is said to have been triggered partly by his son’s asthma – the golden state is blazing a trail on greenhouse gas emissions for the next president to follow.
“We are doing what we want the federal government to do,” says Eileen Tutt, deputy secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency. “Both presidential candidates now say they want to fill the vacuum in Washington. We want them to have a working model in front of them when…
