California Democrats are optimistic that the state will be able to achieve sweeping new environmental objectives outlined in recently passed legislation, the state’s Senate president said Wednesday.
His assessment was expressed at an event in Sacramento hosted by RealClearPolitics and sponsored by the Diesel Technology Forum. RCP Washington Bureau Chief Carl Cannon quizzed Kevin de León, president pro tempore of the California Senate, as well as environmental and business experts about the state’s energy and climate challenges.
De León, a Democrat, lauded Senate Bill 350, which passed the upper chamber last week and now heads to the state Assembly. But its prospects in the lower chamber are less certain than they were in the Democratic-controlled Senate, where no Republicans voted for the measure.
