OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 12: California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a visit to Chabot Space & Science Center with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on August 12, 2022 in Oakland, California. Kamala Harris wrapped up a two day trip to Northern California with a tour of the Chabot Space & Science Center. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
With the Legislative Assembly a few days after the postponement of its 2022 session, Governor Gavin Newsom published a series of decrees and demands that, according to him, California will establish a fair path to treat climate change.
Thursday, standing near an antioch plant that treats salbuena water in drinking water, Newsom
The most important aspects include: : Create up to 4 million storage storage feet above or below the ground "allowing us to capitalize on large storms when they occur and store water during dry periods:" < /p>
—The up to 800,000 acres of wastewater for the year in drinking water; —Aver 500,000 acres of water per year through conservation practices; And - Capture more storm waters and Malaline seawater and savory groundwater. A day later, Newsom asked the legislature that .
Measures would do it: : Code for the objective of carbon neutrality status by 2045; - Increase the objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 2030 from 40% to 55% below the 1990 level; - Demand that new oil wells are at least 3,200 feet from schools, houses and parks; : establish renewable electricity targets of 90% by 2035 and 95% by 2040; And : Create a regulatory framework for carbon extraction and capture, use and removal. Although these policy statements are Newsom's recipe to deal with climate change, as the old adage warns, "talking is cheap". Suppose Newsom takes seriously what he says that California should do, and not for the advertising of the electoral year, the elections of this year or another in 2024, he must go beyond From the high paper establishment and tell us in detail how they would. Let us take, for example, the notion of accelerating the conversion of the power supply to the state electricity at 100% renewable, which mainly means the solar or wind generation, by 2045. When you issue this request In the Legislative Assembly, I also dealt with the fact that the State network already strives to meet the current demand. With the breakdowns of Panus who threaten, Newsom wants. Newsom to eliminate cars with gasoline in favor of those who are executed with batteries will impose even more energy demand. Therefore, we must say how this miraculous conversion will occur without saving or crushing consumers with new costs. In the same way, you must specify which specific projects will be necessary to deal with the reduction in water supply, which will cost and which will pay them. Where would you built new deposits or desalination factories? The Coastal Commission of the State has just rejected a desalination plant in Huntington Beach that Newsom said it had supported. dan Walters is a calm columnist.