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The success of the four- province and seven-state environmental initiative may be written in the elections of 2008.
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the United
States and Canada are reach- ing across the border to tackle climate change, but the fate of regionally-based programs
like the Western Climate Initiative following the victory of U.S. presi- dent-elect Barack Obama is some- thing companies across the conti- nent are eager to know.
The WCI is an agreement between seven states and four provinces to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 per cent from 2005 levels by 2020. The reduction would be through a cap-and-trade program that
rep-
resents a clear departure from cur- rent Canadian and American fed- eral climate change plans. With an
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