courant.com | The Greening Of Beantown: "Boston recently joined the growing ranks of major cities in the United States that are taking ambitious and practical steps to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino's executive order on Thursday puts his 15-point plan into immediate effect. His goal is to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and other greenhouse gases from Boston's 400 municipal buildings and 2,000 vehicles to 7 percent below 1990 levels by the year 2012. By 2050, Mr. Menino hopes Boston will have reduced greenhouse-gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels...
...Urban areas generate more than three-quarters of the world's greenhouse gases. Mr. Menino's initiative puts Boston alongside Chicago, New York, Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco - as well as a dozen states (including Connecticut) - that have committed to broad emissions-reduction targets...."
