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Arizona: Governor change could shift state's climate policies

If Gov. Janet Napolitano heads to Washington to serve in President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet, it could portend a major shift in policy for one of her biggest local priorities: climate change.

Environmental groups, elected officials and other political watchers say that a new Republican administration, under the helm of now-Secretary of State Jan Brewer, would likely significantly reduce Arizona's involvement in the Western Climate Initiative.

Napolitano was a founding member of the regional effort, which brings several Western states and a handful of Canadian provinces together to limit and reduce man-made greenhouse gases, among other things.