Posted on 12/15/2022 6:02:32 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California air regulators voted Thursday to approve an ambitious plan to drastically reduce reliance on fossil fuels by changing practices in the energy, transportation and agriculture sectors, but critics say it doesn’t go far enough to combat climate change.
California previously set that carbon neutrality target as a goal, but Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation making it a mandate earlier this year. He has said drastic changes are needed to position California as a global climate leader.
The plan does not commit the state to taking any particular actions but sets out a broad roadmap for how California can achieve its goals. Here are the highlights:
RENEWABLE POWER
The implementation of the plan hinges on the state’s ability to transition away from fossil fuels and rely more on renewable resources for energy. It calls for the state to cut liquid petroleum fuel demand by 94% by 2045, and quadruple solar and wind capacity along that same timeframe.
TRANSPORTATION
Officials hope a move away from gas-powered cars and trucks reduces greenhouse gas emissions while limiting the public health impact of chemicals these vehicles release.
CARBON CAPTURE
The plan refers to carbon capture as a “necessary tool” to implement in the state alongside other strategies to mitigate climate change. It calls for the state to capture 100 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent and store it underground by 2045.
AGRICULTURE
One of the goals is to achieve a 66% reduction in methane emissions from the agriculture sector by 2045. Cattle are a significant source for releasing methane, a potent, planet-warming gas.
The plan’s implementation would also mean less reliance by the agriculture sector on fossil fuels as an energy source.
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Sounds like a true paradise.
Energy utopia.
Elect Newsom POTUS and the whole country could have nirvana.
Reparations, carbon neutrality, no ICE vehicles by 2035.... California is a real paradise.
That gives productive, intelligent, and moral folks 23 years to get the hell outta Dodge. We’ll take care of sterilizing the land and hopefully returning it to civilized life a couple of years after that.
It’s California so frankly I don’t care as long as the stupidity stays limited to California and other blue states.
Wonder what the people in 2045 will think of these assholes?
Does this mean that all the liberals that have invaded Georgia and other places in the Southeast will all take their toy cars and move to California?
God willing.
They will think what they are told to think: that the problems were caused by conservatives and the solution is more woke bull Obama.
Why so soon? < /sarcasm >
carbon neutrality on earth a carbon based planet is pure insanity
carbon neutrality, California dustbowl
Once the main agricultural center of the US now setting course full steam ahead to return to the desert it was before the 1900s.
No farms, except marijuana farms, no livestock, except seals and sea lions.
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