'This board is starting to show some real climate leadership,' one campaigner in California said while also warning its carbon neutrality plan 'offers massive giveaways to Big Oil.'
last month for awarding Pacific Gas & Electric $1.1 billion in federal funding to keep its reactors running.
"Improvements in the state climate plan—including bold targets for expanding mass transit, stopping the expansion of gas power plants, and planning for the phasedown of oil production—could not have been won without the political courage of current board leadership,"California Environmental Justice Alliance political director Mabel Tsang."We applaud the call for an inter-agency process to coordinate the phasedown of oil refining and extraction in California.
Connie Cho, an associate attorney at one of Communities for a Better Environment's California offices, offered similar applause and criticism.
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