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  The G-8 agree on a goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

  Fetched: July 9th, 2008, 3:57am PDT

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  The Washington Post leads with the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations agreeing on a goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. It marked the first time that President Bush has backed a plan that calls for a specific target to combat global warming. The declaration made it clear that developing nations must also commit to "meaningful" cuts, which has long been a goal of the Bush administration. Developing countries and environmentalists were quick to criticize the Group of Eight declaration as essentially meaningless because its language was too vague. The Wall Street Journal leads its world-wide newsbox with, and the WP fronts, claims by a former Environmental Protection Agency official that Vice President Cheney's office sought deletions to a federal official's prepared testimony about health threats posed by global warming.
  
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