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While California cities and counties now have an unprecedented chance to harness historic funding to combat climate change, many of them lack the workforce necessary to capitalize on this investment, a new report found. 

A California-based think tank’s latest report calls for major changes in the way electricity prices are calculated.

The cost of electricity has skyrocketed for Californians in recent years. A report published last year by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) predicted, if unmitigated, this trend will only continue. The agency found that wildfires will likely continue driving up these costs.

Residential customers in San Diego Gas & Electric Co., Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and Southern California Edison service territories paid an effective “electricity tax” that averaged $678 in 2019 due to California’s rate structure, a new report from the University of California, Berkeley’s Energy Institute at the Haas School of Business and Next 10 has found.

California is behind in reducing climate-warming pollution and needs to get its act together.

After another summer of dangerous heat waves, wildfires, and drought, he was there to offer salvation for the scorched Golden State in the form of a $15 billion climate package.