Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 6/15/21

 North Carolina stepped Tuesday toward a major goal for climate change activists: joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a multi-state agreement to cap the amount of carbon dioxide power companies emit. What comes next would be a long and complicated regulatory road before something changes. But environmental groups said they were pleased by Tuesday's decision from the Air Quality Committee of the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission.

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