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Posted: Wednesday, 28 November 2007 4:15PM
New York City's Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Put Into Law
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NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City's plan to achieve a 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 now has a symbolic legal backing after the City Council put the goal into law.
Lawmakers today passed legislation backing the timetable that Mayor Michael Bloomberg set last spring. It aims to cut emissions from city-operated facilities by 30 percent by 2017, and citywide by 2030.
The law is essentially unenforceable, there are no penalties or regulations for emitting the heat-trapping gases.
It does impose one mandate, each year, officials must report New York City's emissions total, which can be used to gauge its progress in reducing the pollutants.
More than 700 U.S. mayors, including Bloomberg, have signed onto an agreement to meet or beat the Kyoto Protocol targets by 2012; that would mean reducing emissions by 7 percent from 1990 levels.
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