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Sacramento Utility Sets More Ambitious Climate Goal Than State

  • Municipal utility pledges to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030
  • California has committed to being carbon neutral by 2045
    

Photographer: Steve Hockstein/Bloomberg

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District has set a more ambitious climate goal than California, aiming to be carbon neutral 15 years before the rest of the state.

The utility’s board unanimously adopted a resolution late Thursday to “work towards carbon neutrality by 2030” -- a decade sooner than its previous target of 2040. Under state law, all of California’s power must come from carbon neutral sources by 2045.