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Press Releases

• Environmental justice leaders urge California Air Resources Board to set target to phase out existing gas-fired power plants in the state’s most far-reaching climate plan, September 1, 2022
• California communities hurt most by pollution encouraged by CPUC decision on the future of greenhouse gas emissions, February 10, 2022
• California Public Utilities Commission Orders Major Buildout of New Zero-Emission Electricity Resources, June 24, 2021
• Public Energy Commission Takes Drastic Turn on California’s Pathway to Clean Energy, February 11, 2021
• Governor’s Executive Order Stops Short of Real Climate Action, September 23, 2020
• Regenerate California’s Recommendations for a Just Recovery for Governor’s Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery, July 1, 2020
• CPUC Blocks Path to New Gas in Partial Won for Frontline Community Members, March 26, 2020
• Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Statement, March 16, 2020
• Communities On the Front Lines of Climate Change Demand Vulnerable Working Families Be Prioritized In Transition Off Of Gas, February 4, 2020

Letters

• Regenerate California’s Recommendations for a Just Recovery for Governor’s Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery, COMING SOON

Blogs

• Coronavirus Shows Us That We Need to Plan Now and Take Bold Action Against Gas Plants, April 27, 2020
• The California Public Utilities Commission Needs to Plan Now for a Clean, Healthy Future, March 31, 2020

References

• “Gas Plants Will Get Crushed by Wind, Solar by 2035, Study Says,” David Baker, Bloomberg, September 9, 2019. 
• “California Starts Closing the Door on Natural Gas,” Larry Buhl, Capital & Main, July 31, 2019. 
• “What Comes Next After Batteries Replace Gas Peakers?,” Julian Spector, Greentech Media, July 01, 2019.
• “Where Batteries Are Replacing Power Plants,” Alan Neuhauser, U.S. News & World Report, May 21, 2019. 
• “Declining Battery Storage Costs Raise Questions About the Role of Natural Gas,” Renewable Energy World, July 17, 2018. 
• “Turning Down the Gas in California,” Union of Concerned Scientists, Jul 13, 2018. 
• “Energy Storage Poses a Growing Threat to Peaker Plants,” Charles Newbery, Transform, October 01, 2018. 
• “Have We Reached Peak Peaker? ‘I Can’t See Why We Should Build a Gas Peaker After 2025’,” Emma Foehringer Merchant, December 12, 2017. 
• “Is 100% Renewable Energy Possible?,” Elena Krieger, PhD, PSE Healthy Energy, March 28, 2015.