B.C. first province to legislate gas reduction targets

VICTORIA
– B.C. became the first Canadian province to enshrine greenhouse gas
reduction targets in legislation with a bill introduced in the
legislature on Tuesday.

Bill 44, the Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Targets Act, makes a legal requirement of something first promised by
the Liberal government in last February’s throne speech: that B.C.
emissions be trimmed by 33 per cent by the year 2020.

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