California’s Climate Change Law Clears a Big Hurdle After Lobbyists Crank Up Pressure
Note edited to source differently-now LA Times.
HRC has an election to win, California is a lock. We can well afford to see to those other very important items on the public agenda. Our regulations for energy, climate and economy.
The Times makes an observation about the shape of politics here in the executive and the legislative. There will still be money in energy. It just won’t be so fossil centric. Er, referring to slow to change energy companies there. Now we will have more renewable, and the wrangles that come with those kilowatts. Solar, wind, geothermal if we dare.
California Gov. Jerry Brown got mad and one year later has gotten even with the oil lobby.
It’s a textbook example of what can happen in a representative democracy when a leader is willing to settle for realistic goals. It’s what results when one doesn’t get too greedy and agrees to compromise.
It’s also symptomatic of one-party control. Dominant Democrats in Sacramento hang together more often than not, and that produces victories when only a simple majority vote is required. And that’s usually.
Republicans these days are mostly irrelevant in California’s Capitol. And they could be even more extraneous after the November election if GOP legislative candidates pay a penalty of lost seats for their party’s nomination of an ill-mannered, narcissist numbskull for president.
More: California’s climate change law clears a big hurdle after lobbyists crank up pressure