California recorded one of the steepest single-year declines in climate pollution in its history in 2023, cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 3 percent in a year when the state’s economy continued to expand.
Renewable energy accounted for more than half of California's electricity mix for the first time in 2024 as the state's reliance on fossil fuels reached a record low, according to the latest California Green Innovation Index released Dec. 16.
California’s planet-warming pollution shrank by 3% in 2023, one of the largest year-over-year reductions the state has seen, according to a report by nonprofit Next 10.
The rapid growth of data centers could slow California’s clean-energy transition if it keeps the state tied to natural gas. And some of the carbon-free alternative energy sources that could meet their power needs are deeply controversial among environmentalists.
A new report from the nonpartisan research group Next 10, An Assessment of California Data Centers’ Environmental and Public Health Impacts, places context and data at the forefront of that footprint.
