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Gov. Brown to his critics: 'We have the strictest rules on oil drilling anywhere in the U.S.’
California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation on Monday that commits the state to generating all its retail electricity from renewables, and becoming carbon-neutral by 2045.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readCalifornia Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation on Monday that commits the state to generating all its retail electricity from renewables, and becoming carbon-neutral by 2045. These bills came up last year but didn’t make it out of the legislature, so what’s changed? Brown also responds to critics who say he permitted some 20,000 new oil wells in the state during his tenure -- and thus needs to do more for California’s environmental health. The governor is launching a global climate summit in San Francisco on Wednesday.
CA Governor Jerry Brown speaking remotely with
Madeleine Brand. Photo by Mark Jones.
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Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown on his climate efforts- 0:00Gov. Brown to his critics: 'We have the strictest rules on oil drilling anywhere in the U.S.’You’re reading this
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- 18:03Finding parents deported without their kids in Guatemala
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- 39:29Why we should take sexual harassment training more seriously
The full episode
1 of 5Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown on his climate efforts- 0:00Gov. Brown to his critics: 'We have the strictest rules on oil drilling anywhere in the U.S.’You’re reading this
- 10:02How the 2008 financial collapse led to our current political populist moment
- 18:03Finding parents deported without their kids in Guatemala
- 26:15'Mean Girls’ in Ghana, and how skin color in Africa determines who’s at the top of the pecking order
- 39:29Why we should take sexual harassment training more seriously