Editorial: California needs to slash carbon pollution. Its pie-in-the-sky plan falls short

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : In reality, we already have most of the solutions to the climate crisis right in front of us -- electrifying everything we can as quickly as possible and fueling it with clean renewable energy.
40% :Environmental groups and researchers studying the plan have lamented that it does not call for hastening the shift to 100% wind, solar and other renewable energy by 2035 as President Biden and other countries like Germany are pushing for, and instead anticipates 10 gigawatts of new natural gas capacity in the state -- the equivalent of building 33 large new gas plants -- by 2045.

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