Cato: Reduce carbon footprint

Beaufort (S.C.) Gazette editor Jim Cato wrote a Sunday column based in part of the Center for a Better South's new environmental policy book, Getting Greener. Here's an excerpt:

From a cell phone on a runway in Montgomery, Ala., on Thursday, Brack said that the book is an important guide for Southerners because their "lawmakers have been timid about taking action to protect the environment. If they don't take action, those special places we have in the South will disappear."

"Over the next generations, millions of Americans will continue to move into the Sunbelt. The South will face new challenges of development and infrastructure pitted against traditional uses of land and Southerners' heritage with fields, mountains, rivers, streams, marshes and forests," Brack says in the book's introduction.

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