California’s leaders quickly saluted last week when President Barack Obama released his Clean Power Plan, a 1,500-page proposal that would dramatically reduce the nation’s dependence on coal.
We’re already there, or at least we think we are.
At the Legislature’s urging, California’s private utilities have weaned themselves from coal, and public power agencies are ending their contracts with out-of-state coal plants.
“I welcome this bold and absolutely necessary carbon reduction plan,” Gov. Jerry Brown said in a statement.
That Brown would praise Obama’s plan is no surprise. This is, after all, the land of cap-and-trade and the heartfelt desire to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent within 15 years.
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