I worked in the power industry for three decades. Utilities stopped promoting engineers to the top executive ranks and started putting “woke” lawyers in CEO positions. Utilities never were ones to fight mandates as long as the investment t could go into the rate base. They usually accepted some small amount of kookiness because they had bigger fish to fry like getting an over-budget, late nuke plant completed and operating. But it got far worse in the 90s when those new execs embraced wholeheartedly all the kooky ideas.
It’s a slippery slope, more cost effective to appease but eventually the weight of taking the easy road pulls the whole sleigh to a halt. Maybe there will be a winnowing of those woke executives now that fingers are being pointed.
No one wants to fight the crazies but the people of California are paying the price of empowering them. Hopefully President Trump will apply some common sense not only in California but across the Nation. There is a tremendous lose of productivity & a brake on our economic engine due solely to political correctness and pseudo grievances, not to mention the climate change fallacy.