California extends most ambitious climate change law in US
LOS ANGELES — A decade ago, California vowed to dramatically slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
With the nation’s most populous state on pace to meet that target, Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday charted a new goal to further cut carbon pollution by extending and expanding the landmark climate change law.
It will “keep California on the move to clean up the environment,” Brown said moments before signing a pair of bills in a Los Angeles park amid opposition from the oil industry, business groups and Republicans.
Experts said going forward will be more challenging because the new goal — to reduce emissions 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2030 — is considerably more ambitious and many of the easy solutions have been employed.