In California, where one-eighth of Americans reside, we have a Republican governor and a Democratic legislature moving in the same direction — and with broad public support — on the issue of Global Warming.

Last week top environmental, political, and business leaders held a "Climate Action Summit" that galvanized support for limits on ozone-depleting chemical emissions. A law may be in place as early as September that caps not utilities, like caps announced in eight northeastern states in January, but to landfills, and oil refineries, as well. The Christian Science Monitor has more.