This is the July 22, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. That kind of acceleration — if it happens — could help California secure its status as a global leader on fighting climate change, a role critics say the state has at least partially ceded. AdvertisementCalifornia’s current targets “were set in a different time, frankly, when there was less definitive science, or less urgent science, when the realities of climate change weren’t what we’ve seen in these last few weeks,” Blumenfeld said. They’re making plans for the West Coast’s first offshore wind farms and recently ordered utilities and local governments to buy gargantuan amounts of clean energy. Get Boiling Point, our newsletter about climate change, the environment and building a more sustainable California.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 22, 2021 13:02 UTC