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Article: Slowing global warming _ a shared responsibility.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- July 27, 2004
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The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Monday, July 26:
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New York's crusading attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, is at it again. This time, he's leading New York City and eight states, in a lawsuit against five of the nation's largest power companies in an attempt to slow global warming.
The companies annually emit 10 percent of the United States' carbon dioxide, a gas that contributes to global warming. The lawsuit filed Wednesday doesn't seek monetary damages. Instead, it asks a New York federal judge to set yearly emissions reductions from the companies' 174 fossil-fuel-burning plants.
The lawsuit is a ...