In 2007, Arizona joined seven Western states and four Canadian provinces in a plan to regulate “greenhouse gases” that environmentalists blame for “global warming.” The coalition wants to cap factories’, power plants’ and vehicles’ “greenhouse gas” emissions.
But Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer realized the rules are unworkable. The rules on car emissions are modeled on California’s restrictions — a state that has seen car manufacturing collapse in part because of harsh environmental regulations. And caps on other companies’ emissions would raise costs to consumers and hinder economic recovery.
So Gov. Brewer’s state will not go along with the scheme after all.
Reality has sensibly intruded on an impractical environmental crusade.