Mexico's new president is a climate scientist. That could be a boon for California.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : But she has been vocal about where she differs with him on investing in renewable energy.
61% : While López Obrador doubled down on fossil fuels as central to energy independence, his protegé's vision includes spending $13.6 billion to build out wind and solar power and the infrastructure to transmit it.
57% : As a Ph.D. candidate in the 1990s, she spent four years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researching energy use in Mexico's transportation sector while her then-husband, Carlos Ímaz, pursued graduate studies at Stanford.

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