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Democrats retreat on climate: ‘It’s one of the more disappointing turnabouts’ | A changing political climate has California Democrats recalibrating on climate policies. (www.politico.com)
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Not my favorite source, but not a lot of other coverage.

It's going to take two things to change this:

  • Communication to make sure that elected officials hear from us. That means calling, writing, turning up in person, trying to have private conversations with staff, etc.
  • Active intervention in primaries, so that it's much harder to get elected if you don't support decarbonization
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once-popular climate policies are exacting a political price by pushing up energy and housing costs

Disturbing narrative to claim as fact. Oil prices were high because of war on Russia, and usual OPEC conspiracy to cut output during Democrat terms. CA electricity prices are high because Utility monopolies are powerful lobbyists, with the biggest factor, raising prices in whole of CA to get out of forest fire related liability bankruptcies. Rate payers instead of shareholders had to pay. Restrictive home solar policies is also Utility supremacism.

There is little in the article that is directly climate related, but the more fuel you are "forced to use", the more expensive it will be. The housing cost reference doesn't have any climate related points in article, but solar mandate for new construction was heavily botched. Extremely crappy solar in small amount is usually installed, without regard to production efficiency/orientation.

If California politicians were paid to make energy cheaper for CA residents (they weren't and aren't), they haven't been doing their job, but its not renewable energy options that are to blame. It's control to limited access.

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