Efficient buildings are key to state’s clean-energy push
Gov. Jerry Brown, center, arrives last October at Griffith Observatory with Senate President pro Tem Kevin De León, right, and then-Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, to sign landmark legislation to increase the state’s renewable electricity use to 50 percent and doubling energy efficiency in existing buildings by 2030. Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press file.
Ethan Elkind (UCLA School of Law and UC Berkeley School of Law) writes that regulators should capitalize on proposed legislation to promote aggressive energy-efficiency projects based on emerging energy-saving technologies.
