The New York Times’ Felicity Barringer takes a look today at California’s new plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Acting on a 2006 law, the state seeks to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels through a cap-and-trade system involving state utilities and factories.

Oh, and the state will cap greenhouse gas emissions in automobiles — even though the Environmental Protection agency denied them a waiver in December to police tailpipe emissions. But California is suing the EPA, whose administrator Stephen Johnson has been unceasingly hammered by state legislatures, Congress, enviros and his own employees for denying the waiver.

The state is confident they can win the case and start the work of mitigating the global warming disaster. Good for them.-MB

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