Ralph Vartabedian | LA Times/L.A. Now Link to article
Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom speaks to the audience during the Los Angeles Times Summit: Powering Forward at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica, CA., on Friday, July 15, 2016.
(Jenna Schoenefeld / For the Los Angeles Times)
As California pushes forward on its ambitious goal to produce 50% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030, it will confront a wide range of potentially troubling economic, technical and political questions — though there remains strong support among public officials for the state’s climate program.
The state is demonstrating to the rest of the nation and the world that it has the deep political willpower to address climate change, but it has yet to fully understand the impacts of the program on low-income residents, economic growth and electrical grid reliability. (Link to article)
