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The following is a contributed article by Nina Robertson and Katherine Ramsey, clean energy attorneys at Earthjustice and the Sierra Club, and Shana Lazerow, legal director at Communities for a Better Environment (representing the California Environmental Justice Alliance).
The past eight months have given us some of the most extreme weather we’ve seen yet in the United States, sending us soaring heat in California and arctic ice storms in Texas. This weather whiplash is yet another sign of a climate changing in frightening ways. Here in California, rolling blackouts left millions without power last summer, prompting some soul-searching in the state about our energy future as the lights went out.
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Environmental groups are challenging the California Public Utilities Commission's (CPUC) decision to authorize emergency capacity procurements for the summer months, saying that it essentially creates a loophole for new investments in fossil fuel resources despite the state's long-term climate goals.
Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists and the California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) last week filed an application asking the commission to reconsider the decision, after the state's utilities outlined plans to contract additional capacity from existing fossil fuel plants.
"The commission is digging us deeper into a hole by making us more dependent on fossil fuels … and it's doing so on the backs of communities that have been bearing the brunt of the pollution for far too long already," said Nina Robertson, staff attorney with Earthjustice.