<story><title>California, Oregon and Washington announce western states pact</title><url>https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/13/california-oregon-washington-announce-western-states-pact/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcranmer</author><text>Also relevant is that the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Delaware made a similar pact today.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Massachusetts has also joined this pact as well (I thought it was surprising that it hadn&amp;#x27;t when I first read the news).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>If only there was some sort of multi-state organization through which individual states could pull together on issues spanning multiple states.  Such a &amp;quot;federal&amp;quot; approach would be very useful.  If only someone had thought of this years ago.  Of course it would have to be staffed by people selected and respected by all, but surely there is some way of doing that too.</text></comment>
<story><title>California, Oregon and Washington announce western states pact</title><url>https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/13/california-oregon-washington-announce-western-states-pact/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcranmer</author><text>Also relevant is that the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Delaware made a similar pact today.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Massachusetts has also joined this pact as well (I thought it was surprising that it hadn&amp;#x27;t when I first read the news).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aioprisan</author><text>MA joined in as well on that pact</text></comment>