New York Times: California regulators on Thursday adopted the country`s first comprehensive plan for curbing emissions of heat-trapping gases. The plan establishes the broad outlines of a system of trading pollution permits and allocates among various industry sectors — transportation, smokestack industries, housing and others — the responsibility for cutting emissions to 1990 levels in the next 12 years. The plan also commits the state to a goal that many industries in California have resisted: …