
California set detailed goals to cut greenhouse gases and address global warming on Thursday in the face of strong criticism that an economic analysis buttressing the plan was hopelessly optimistic.
A 2006 landmark California law set the ambitious goal of cutting carbon emissions linked to global warming to 1990 levels by 2020.
The California Air Resources Board voted on Thursday to adopt a plan to fill in details of how to do it, from forest conservation to energy efficiency and industrial carbon emissions.
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