Top California Air Official Outlines Emissions Reduction Pathway

The California Air Resources Board has big emissions reduction goals that nothing short of a clean “new industrial revolution” can fulfill, Chair Liane Randolph said.

The state’s air agency wields the power to create California’s scoping plan, an emissions blueprint that aims to make the state carbon neutral by 2045. California needs to triple its current electricity power capacity to meet that goal, according to a state joint agency report.

But Randolph and others speaking Wednesday at an Environmental Law Institute event voiced concerns over upcoming decisions, including an endangered species rule and pivotal court case, that could tie ...