California passes bill that could help rescue gas plants
Gov. Gavin Newsom is struggling to keep the lights on while fighting climate change.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom is struggling to keep the lights on while fighting climate change.
There are now fewer than 10 plants without a planned retirement date.
This is the Jan. 7, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. With less than two weeks until Joe Biden takes office — and with Democrats taking control of the Senate — the growth of clean energy is poised to accelerate. Even if Congress doesn’t fully embrace the president-elect’s $2-trillion climate plan, there will be plenty of actions his administration can take to support renewable power and put pressure on fossil fuels. So here’s some food for thought: I...