Southern California Edison?s Blueprint for Integrated Electrification [Viewpoint]

California has been aggressively confronting climate change for more than a decade. State policy makers, supported by two-thirds of the state’s adult residents (according to a recent Public Policy Institute of California poll), have backed increasingly more stringent regulations to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In 2006, the state legislature set initial goals to reduce the state’s GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and to 40% and 80% below the same baseline by 2030 and 2050, respectively. Reports on the specifics of this climate change policy.