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(KSL News) Salt Lake City leaders say they want to cut the city's carbon emissions by 50 percent in the next 32 years.
Mayor Ralph Becker and two city council members today proposed a joint resolution they say will accomplish that goal.
Analysts have completed a carbon emissions audit of every agency in the city. City officials say now they're now past the point of discussion.
"If we're not ahead of the game, we're not going to have control over what happens to us," said Vicki Bennett, Salt Lake City's director of sustainability.
Some of that goal will be reached by collecting methane gas at the landfill. The city has also ordered all vehicles to idle no longer than 10 seconds, and thermostats in city buildings are set two degrees higher in the summer and two degrees lower during the winter.
The city's goals exceed the Western Climate Initiative, which aims to cut carbon emissions 15 percent by 2020.
