A little bipartisan bromance as Schwarzenegger, Newsom laud California's climate-change wins

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Set us as preferred Former Gov.Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, celebrated the 20-year anniversary of landmark climate legislation he signed while in office alongside Democrats including Gov.

Gavin Newsom on Wednesday.“California is the perfect example of what can be done when people work together and when we don’t look at this as a Republican or as a Democratic issue,” Schwarzenegger said at an economic conference in Long Beach, noting that Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act had significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions while creating more than a half a million clean-energy jobs.“This is the message that is so important for the world,” he said, because the state’s policies have become a model for other states and nations.Newsom noted that the state had met “audacious” goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, touting 39,000 megawatts of clean energy that have been installed in the last seven years, 23,000 megawatts of battery storage created, and that no flex alert has been issued in the state in four years.“So we’re not in the goal-setting business; we’re in the how business,” he said.He added that the clean energy transition is “the most critical national security issue in the United States of America,” with economic and supply chain leadership at stake as China surpasses the U.S.

in electric vehicles, clean-energy manufacturing and the deployment of renewables.The state already met the climate change legislation’s ambitious target — returning emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 — four years ahead of schedule.However, recent analyses indicate California is not on track to meet its future targets of cutting emissions 40% by 2030 and 85% by 2045.The legislation paved the way for the creation of California’s nation-leading carbon market, cap-and-invest, which laun...