California policymakers love to lecture the rest of the world about climate change and the need to shift power generation from fossil fuels to renewables such as wind, solar, and hydropower. The key obstacle to keeping the lights on - and to the state meeting its aggressive shift to renewables - is California's arcane regulatory process.
California pretends that it's a world unto itself, but the global climate is affected by everything that happens on that globe
- California's arcane regulatory process makes it too difficult for power providers to upgrade to more environmentally friendly facilities.
- At the federal level, the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in West Virginia v. EPA restricted the EPA from using the Clean Air Act to force transitions to alternative energy without getting additional congressional approval.
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