California climate change decisions face new resistance

Over the last two decades, three California governors have committed the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to fight climate change.

The official goal is to achieve carbon carbon neutrality by 2045 through legislation, regulation, education, interruption and assignment, so we are approximately halfway.

Conceptually, the erasure of carbon from the country’s economy, more specially transport and communal sectors, enjoys widespread popular support. But since the independent time limit for self -imposed is outlined, specific emission reduction strategies have resistance, as the Californians believe that their real impact on the world.

Ever the brice sales of Cars with batteryFor example, they hit a plateau. They still represent about 20% of all new car purchases, but in order to meet the Gavin Newsom governor’s decree to remove sales of gas with gas by 2035, they will have to increase exponentially.

The delay in EV sales is due to their costs, the lack of convenient charging fees, and gradually fadral subsidies, even before Donald Trump becomes president again with a Object to strengthen the hydrocarbon production.

The conversion of the electricity system of the state into renewable sources such as wind and solar energy is double complex. The state should not only eliminate natural gas generation while still meets current needs, but it must expand the production to cover the demand of many millions of electric cars that suggest it will be purchased and installed enough backup capacity of a backup capacity The battery to cover the demand when the wind does not make the wind “do not blow and the sun does not shine.

Two simultaneous events this month france the problem.

A New studyPublished in The Renewable Energy Journal, it found that in 2024, from the end of winter to the beginning of summer, renewable energy sources with a backup of battery supply 100% of the state demand for up to 10 hours to 98 of 116 days, a record.

The study was Welcomed by the defenders of pure power As a proof that a 100% renewable network is possible.

But as it was celebrated, a huge battery facility in Moss Landing, near Monterey, was destroyed by a fire, so intense that firefighters had to let it burn.

In addition, after the fire died, researchers from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories found High concentrations of toxic heavy metals In the nearby muddy and marsh.

Toxic contamination is Attracting critical attention in the picturesque region of Monterey Bay. The district supervisors unanimously voted that another bank bank would be excluded in anticipation of an investigation into the causes and effects of the fire.

Vistra, the owner of the destroyed moss landing plant, wants to build another plant in Moro Bay, another picturesque coastal community in San Louis Obippi County. Local voters passed a measure of vote Last year to block its construction, but the company said it would bypass this opposition by seeking a direct state permit.

The State’s plan to achieve its carbon emission purpose suggests that offshore windmill farms will deliver Oodles with clean energy, but this approach is also facing some winds.

As CalMatters reported, Morro Bay is also Epicenter of increasing opposition Among the coastal residents who regard it as a form of industrialization that would change the appearance and nature of their communities. Offshore windmills will require extensive shore maintenance facilities, plus new high -voltage power lines to carry the juice to urban areas.

Finally there is Another potential conflict This is developing under political radar – whether solar farms should replace crops in the farm of San Joaquin Valley, as farmers are confronted with a decrease in water supply. Like the coastal opposition of batteries and offshore windmills, rural communities are cautious about the conversion of solar panels, which would change their economies and lifestyles.

There is no doubt that eliminating carbon footprint in California is technologically possible given sufficient financial investment. But is it political?