(Bloomberg) -- California Governor Jerry Brown ordered emissions of greenhouse gases reduced to almost half of what they were a quarter century ago, the most ambitious statewide effort to combat climate change in the U.S.
Brown, a 77-year-old Democrat, issued an executive order establishing a target of 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. To do so, the state must require utilities to get more electricity from low-pollution sources, compel industries to cut smokestack emissions further and encourage greater numbers of cleaner cars on roads.
California, with the seventh-largest economy on the globe, already has some of the toughest carbon pollution regulations in the U.S. and is on target to meet its self-imposed deadline to cut emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Now, Brown and other Democratic leaders are looking to advance those climate change policies further even as business leaders warn they put companies at a competitive disadvantage.
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