California’s War on Climate Change: CALmatters Explains

By Julie Cart and Byrhonda Lyons

CALmatters is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.

California is leading the country in efforts to combat climate change—and upped the ante again today as Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation requiring California to derive all of its electricity from clean energy sources by 2045. This explainer looks at what happens when a state responsible for about 1 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases goes all-in to fight climate change.

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