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California Emissions and Energy History

November 13, 2019

California has been able to decrease emissions by about 12% from 2000 to 2017. Most of this reduction was from shifting from coal use to natural gas.

There was a drop of about 8% in the overall electricity from coal from 16% to 8% in 2008. This dropped CO2 emissions by about 30 million tons of CO2 per year. It took California about 4 years to replace the clean energy generated by the San Onofre nuclear plant.

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