The state’s global warming study group will soon address the idea of limiting carbon emissions. The Legislative Commission on Global Climate Change could discuss limits at its April 22 meeting.
Commission counsel George Givens said at today’s meeting:
We expect at the April meeting to begin to discuss in earnest the matter of whether the state should set a greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal and, if so, what that goal should be. The general thinking about the way those goals are expressed is to achieve reductions in emissions so as to reduce emissions to some historic level ? the normal base year often discussed is 1990 ? and then to achieve those reductions by some schedule that might be spread out say to 2050. Those are not suggestions. They’re just sort of a description. Behind that idea is the idea of holding the parts per million of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to some number less than 500, on the order of 450.
Givens’ comments drew the following response from Roy Cordato:
Givens also explained that the climate change commission could have its work extended to next year.
