"Counties Launch Anti-Global Warming Plan"

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Residents of Virginia's largest county might soon see more vegetation growing on roofs and more green space in new neighborhoods as part of a multimillion-dollar initiative to combat global warming.

The changes are part of a new national program called Cool Counties, which Fairfax County is launching along with several partners: the Sierra Club; Washington state's King County, which includes Seattle; and Illinois' Cook County, which includes Chicago.

The program hopes to encourage each of the nation's more than 3,000 counties to do its part in reducing greenhouse gases, officials said Thursday.

"Sadly, over these past six years, we've had an administration that has chosen to deny the science of global warming," said Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerald E. Connolly. "If they're not going to (take the lead), we're going to do it at the local level."

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