California moves on climate change, but rejects aggressive cuts to greenhouse emissions
As California trudges into another autumn marred by toxic wildfire smoke and drought-parched reservoirs, state lawmakers have cast climate change as a growing public health threat for the state’s 40 million residents. But they were willing to push the argument only so far. … Lawmakers failed to pass legislation to more quickly and aggressively reduce the state’s share of the greenhouse gas emissions warming the planet.
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