Five of six climate bills signed into law

Five of the six climate and energy bills pushed by Gov. Gavin Newsom made it to his desk. AB 2133 — which would have ramped up goals for reducing greenhouse gases — failed at the last minute. 

The bills aim to set interim targets for 100% clean energy, regulate projects to remove carbon from the atmosphere and smokestacks. 

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Bill AB 1279 codifies the state's existing goal of carbon neutrality by 2045. But a more aggressive pace of cutting greenhouse gases failed in the Assembly.

The oil and gas industry also lobbied heavily against Newsom's climate initiatives. 

"It is a regressive mandate that will hit those at the lower end of the income spectrum the hardest."