Gov. Newsom’s Proposal to Invest $1 Billion in ZEV Infrastructure is a Smart Proposition Jason Barbose, Western states policy manager | March 10, 2021, 9:52 am EDT As the calendar turned to 2021 it became official that 2020 concluded the hottest decade on record. Scientists warn that the current decade—the 2020s—is the most consequential for the future of our planet. Collectively, society failed to make adequate progress reducing heat-trapping emissions over the past three decades, and as a result the 2020s are our last chance to preserve a relatively safe home for us all. (…emphasis on relatively, given the dramatic impacts that are already inevitable.)