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UPDATE Posted: October 1, 2009, 4:27 PM ET    

Judy Woodruff Reports: Cities Worldwide Taking Action on Climate Change

NewsHour senior correspondent Judy Woodruff moderated a panel of local and regional leaders from around the world Wednesday in Los Angeles as part of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Global Climate Summit 2.
Judy Woodruff and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Getty Images

In this reporter's notebook, Woodruff discusses what local leaders told her about how they are working to lessen the impacts of climate change.

She reports that leaders of large cities and regions in Asia, Africa and North America are not waiting for their heads of state to act on the issue. Instead, they are making changes to public transportation systems and buildings to make them more energy-efficient and reduce their carbon output.

Listen to the notebook here:

One of the major events of the summit was the announcement by U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson that her agency would seek to curb emissions from America's biggest polluters: coal plants and other industrial facilities. Woodruff reports that summit attendees greeted the development warmly.

Read Jackson's announcement here.

For more on Gov. Schwarzenegger's event, visit the official Web site.


--- Produced by Quinn Bowman, Online NewsHour

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