California Dreaming: Can a Growing State Slash Emissions?

California says it can cut greenhouse-gas emissions and still have economic growth. Huh? Wasnt that what helped sink the Lieberman-Warner billthat the country faces a choice between curbing emissions on the one hand, or growing the economy on the other?An end to all that? (AP)So how does California plan to do it? Well, the Golden States environmental mavens arent exactly sure yet. The state presented today the draft of its big cap-and-trade program that would cut emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020. But it hasnt gotten around to doing either the economic or the environmental models of what t...Original article link