US governors adopt energy plans for the West

Governors of states in the U.S. West approved proposals over the weekend to add cleaner energy resources to meet the region’s growing demand for electricity and they called for reductions in greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
The Western Governors Association, which represents 19 states and three U.S.-flag islands in the Pacific, passed measures on Sunday that call for 30,000 new megawatts of clean energy supplies such as solar and geothermal power by 2015, and development of cleaner fuels like ethanol and biodiesel and climate change policies for the West.

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