Los Angeles unveils plan to curb carbon to 35 percent below 1990 levels

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18699983/

Los Angeles unveils plan to curb carbon
Goal is to reduce footprint by 35 percent below 1990 levels

Updated: 2:28 p.m. PT May 16, 2007

LOS ANGELES - The nation's smog capital is joining the broad fight against climate change.

Los Angeles — a city devoted to cars and polluted by the exhaust that comes with them — announced Tuesday an array of steps to sharply reduce greenhouse gases by 2030.

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The city's goal is to reduce its carbon footprint in 2030 to levels 35 percent below those in 1990 — a target that goes beyond the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the international pact to reduce greenhouse gases that was later spurned by the Bush White House.

The goal would be achieved in part by moving away from coal-fired energy and increasing the city's use of power from wind, solar and other environmentally friendly sources.

Villaraigosa described the plan Wednesday in New York at an international climate summit, where mayors from Seoul to Sao Paulo are sharing ideas on how to reduce gases linked to global warming.

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[Warren Stupidity]

1. yes but about those cars?

How is LA going to make this cut when the city is clogged from one end to the other with cars, when there is essentially no other way to get anywhere? LA without cars is as unimaginable as LA with mexican americans.

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2. Meanwhile, our good mayor is pointedly IGNORING this city's

rather DESPERATE need for BIKE LANES so the millions of us who live within biking distance of work can get there safely. I live 3 miles from work so the bus costs way more than the gas to get there, but walking takes too long so a bike is PERFECT, but the few times I tried convinced me that it was far too dangerous. Car drivers in LA will go out of their way to try to run bikes off the road.

Bike lanes are a cheap and obvious solution.