Republicans don't care much about legal unless it's Democrats doing it.

It's supposed to prevent them from holding elections so they have no representation in Congress

They don't put the gas company logo in it anymore because they know how that destroys credibility

Democrats have long been having those conversations, but also occasionally talking about climate. A lot have stopped that occasional bit

California has unfortunately let the oil majors fraudulently transfer their cleanup liabilities to smaller firms which don't have the resources to plug the wells properly. The public is going to be on the hook to the tune of several billion dollars

There are a lot of abandoned oil wells in LA already.

Map at: https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-oil-well-drilling-idle-cleanup/map/

Put a '.' between the '.com' and '/' and don't use Safari to access.

No, it means that they start plugging old wells right away. But they won't finish the job until 20 years from now.

They're @#$@# expensive to plug in a way that will stay sealed forever. Think a million dollars or two.

I'd Congress stays in session it goes into effect. If Congress leaves town it doesn't.

Disclosure is step 1. Actually not using fossil fuels is step 2.

Not knowing how to swim. Having people around who don't know what drowning looks like. Doing something you shouldn't like hyperventilating before diving. Going into water where you're not able to handle the current. Getting swept out by a wave while wearing heavy clothing. It happens.

Almost. They don't actually show that the renewables they're using would not have been built anyways and that they're not displacing decarbonization as a result. Or that the wind and solar are supplied at the same time and place as the data center.

Doing this stuff well takes keeping track of a lot of moving parts.

California has a long history of really stringent emissions rules because the state has densely populated areas which get thermal inversions which trap the pollution where the people are. They need to be reduculously stringent because the alternative is that people die from the pollution.

The latest round have a bunch of steadily increasing fuel economy rules designed to force automakers to switch away from fossil fuels as part of a much larger effort to stabilize the rising temperatures caused by the rising CO2 concentration which their combustion causes

He knows. Hired union-busters to get rid of the employees who brought it up

Is it like that year-round, or seasonally? Does the new load replace exports that displace fossil fuels in adjacent region?

In the US, you're only allowed to import quite old kei vehicles. I think they need to be over 20 years old

It was inoculation, which used live smallpox virus, and predated vaccination. George Washington required it, as it was far less likely to kill you than getting infected with smallpox naturally. And yes, it was one of the reasons the American Revolution succeeded.

Just the ordinary property tax right now I think

That's the New York Times for you

You can get industrial heat pumps which put out 200°C now. Resistive above that.

And yes, we need a large electrical system build-out. Which is happening anyways for AI. Just with fossil fuels behind it instead of wind and solar.

The alternative to shifting off of fossil fuels is a seriously degraded world

Primary is a terrible way to look at things when most of the energy in fossil fuels is wasted as heat, but it isn't wasted for renewables. You end up seeing almost no shift when large changes are happening