NJ Enacts Anti-Global Warming Law
July 7, 2007 By ANGELA DELLI SANTI, Associated Press Writer
New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, left, shakes hands with former Vice President Al Gore at a ceremony to sign the Global Warming Response Act at Giants Stadium Friday, July 6, 2007, in East Rutherford, N.J. Giants Stadium will be one of the venues for Saturday's Live Earth concerts. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)
(AP) -- New Jersey became the third state in the nation to enact a comprehensive greenhouse gas reduction law Friday, requiring the Garden State to significantly cut emissions of global-warming gases.
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