Jerry Brown Signs California’s Landmark Climate Bill Into Law

The new goal of 50% pollution decrease is definitely achievable by the end of 2030 according to the critics. Mark Leno establishes the world’s most ambitious clean energy targets out to 2030, cementing California’s leadership on the world stage heading into pivotal United Nations climate talks in Paris this December.

While a whole bunch of states are suing the EPA for regulating carbon spewing from the electricity sector, other states, such as California, are moving full-steam ahead towards renewables and carbon-cutting.

The state will continue to cut oil use through regulatory action, Brown said. “It’s the right thing for our economy and for California”. He characterized the loss as a short-term setback and insisted that the world needs to wean itself off fossil fuels as quickly as possible.

State Senate Leader Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), author of SB350, intends the bill to be groundbreaking in more ways than one.

California already gets more electricity from solar than any other state in the country, with enough solar capacity installed in the state to power nearly 3 million homes – and that investment has paid off. nearly 55,000 Californians work in the solar industry.

On October 5th Mr Brown signed the bill-a strong expression of his support, since it could have passed into law if he had merely declined to veto it. Next year California will join Oregon, Vermont, Washington state and Montana in allowing doctors, with appropriate safeguards, to prescribe drugs that terminally ill patients can use to end their own lives, if they choose.

In a statement, Gov. Brown said, “I have considered the theological and religious perspectives that any deliberate shortening of one’s life is sinful”.

Supporters say Californians can keep saving money through rebates and subsidies as they purchase electric vehicles, replace inefficient light bulbs and appliances, and install solar panels or double-paned windows.

Brown began the year setting the most aggressive greenhouse-gas emissions benchmark in North America. Catherine Reheis-Boyd, president of the Western States Petroleum Association, has said removing the proposed cap on oil use reflects how the state’s energy policy affects its competitiveness. She said: “If we would have had a law that allowed aid in dying, we could have spared her a horrific death which then spilled over into the rest of the family being horrified, watching her suffer like she did”.

Both houses are controlled by Democrats, but on Wednesday, Brown squarely accused Republicans of failing to do enough to reverse global warming. As LifeNews previously reported, in June, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said that California’s physician-assisted legislation (SB 128) is the wrong response to their public health crisis and called it a “failure of moral imagination”. “When that day comes, they can look around and see that California will be in better shape because we put SB 350 in place today”.