July 27, 2016
By Joshua Emerson Smith
As the future of California’s marquee (click here) climate-change law in limbo, a new poll finds a majority of residents support expanding efforts to fight greenhouse gases — as well as paying for the associated energy costs.
Under Assembly Bill 32, the state is moving steadily toward limiting greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
Gov. Jerry Brown has further called for cutting emissions by 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, but some business groups have pushed back, arguing that future reduction targets need to be codified with new legislation.
Democratic lawmakers have started pursuing a measure that would cement the governor’s ramped-up goals against global warming.
According to survey released this week by the Public Policy Institute of California, or PPIC, about 68 percent of adults in the state support the idea of further cutting emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases....
