Repost from the San Francisco Chronicle
[Editor: The following is a brief PORTION of a late-breaking SFChron news article. The article focuses on medical marijuana and racist mascots, then turns to breaking news on two climate change bills that are stalled in the California State Assembly. Latest on leginfo.ca.gov: SB32, SB350. – RS]
California government leaders…
By Melody Gutierrez, Updated: September 10, 2015 10:38pm[near end of article] …Also stalling before the deadline was a climate change bill that aimed to chart the state’s path toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions. SB32 by Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills (Los Angeles County), would have required the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below 1990’s levels by 2030, and to 80 percent below 1990’s levels by 2050. Those targets were previously called for by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Brown through executive orders.
The bill failed 25-33 in the Assembly on Tuesday and on Thursday Pavley said she would not seek another vote this year.
“Unfortunately, the state Assembly and the administration were not supportive, for now, and we could not pass this important proposal,” Pavley said in a statement.
SB32’s faltering came a day after another climate change bill was gutted.
SB350 no longer requires the state to cut petroleum use in half over the next 15 years, which Brown said was the result of well-financed opposition from the oil industry. The bill still calls for the state to boost energy efficiency in buildings by 50 percent and requires California to get half of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030.