Editorial: Finally, a plan to save Joshua trees from climate change -- and the bureaucrats

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The proposal would protect the trees from being wiped out by the next century while allowing for renewable energy and housing development -- no matter what the California Fish and Game Commission decides.
57% : The legislation was crafted with input from Native American tribes, renewable-energy companies, the construction industry, organized labor and environmentalists, and has the support of the Center for Biological Diversity, the group that in 2019 petitioned to protect the western Joshua tree on climate change grounds, triggering the temporary protection.
39% : But powerful interests oppose listing it as threatened, saying it would put up too many barriers to urban development and solar and wind energy projects that California needs to slash greenhouse gas emissions.

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