Governors need to follow energy markets

Setting ambitious goals is nothing new in business or government. So it wasn’t much of a surprise last week when Midwestern governors, including Wisconsin’s Jim Doyle, got behind a platform to increase the region’s energy efficiency and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

The trick is turning ambition into tangible, market-ready achievements. That will require much more than signatures on a largely voluntary accord.

Meeting in Milwaukee, the governors of six states and one Canadian province signed an agreement – now one of three in the nation – to work together to slash emissions linked to global warming over the coming decades. Three other states signed on as “observers” but three states did not take part. All 12 governors signed a separate and somewhat less prescriptive energy security and climate stewardship platform that is designed to set goals for the Midwest.

Tom Still

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