• On April 29, Gov. Jerry Brown issued an executive order to establish another greenhouse gas reduction target for the state—40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. A press release from his office said it’s the most aggressive benchmark enacted by any government in North America. The state is on track to meet or exceed the current target of reducing those emissions to 1990 levels by 2020—established by the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. The executive order will “make it possible to reach the ultimate goal of reducing emissions 80 percent under 1990 levels by 2050,” the release said.
This article appears in May 7-14, 2015.