California´s behind on its 2030 climate goals. What´s at stake if it doesn´t catch up?
(WorldNews Business)

California has done surprisingly well over the past decade meeting many of its big climate change goals, even as its economy has steadily grown. But now, as Australia burns, global temperatures continue to rise, and the Trump administration prepares to take the final steps this year to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement, California is falling short of where it needs to be to hit its more ambitious 2030 targets, according to Thursday. And whether or not the state succeeds has big impacts across the rest of the nation and other countries, which often copy California´s environmental laws. `A lot of other places are looking to California to see what seems feasible and...