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California is expected to meet their original expectation of drastically cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 so they’re going even further, according to The Associated Press.

Governor Jerry Brown illustrated a new goal to keep California even cleaner and reduce emissions by 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.

“The long and the short of it is that meeting the goal will require sustained regulatory effort across all sectors of the economy,” said Ann Carlson, a professor of environmental law at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The state plans to build on their original plan by continuing to restrict the carbon content of gasoline and diesel fuel, imposing a tax on pollution, and encouraging sales of zero-emission vehicles.

They also will ad plans to increase renewable electricity use, encourage energy efficiency updates in existing buildings, and putting 1.5 million zero-emissions vehicles on the road said the California Air Resources Board.

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California has had their clean-energy industry blossom since the initiative began, with Brown often traveling to promote greenhouse-gas reduction efforts and trying to increase usage for their cap-and-trade program auctions.

– WN.com, Maureen Foody

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