By the time I talked to Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, he was clearly frustrated. More than 100 environmental groups — including the Sierra Club of California and The Environmental Defense Center — are joining together to fight a package Newsom designed to make it easier to build infrastructure in California. My father was on the board of the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund for more than a decade,” he told me. That was the what; this is the how.”The environmental movement is dealing with a bit of dog-that-caught-the-car confusion these days. That’s particularly true in California, which has committed to being carbon neutral, and to running its electricity grid on 100 percent clean energy, by 2045.

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Persons: Gavin Newsom, ”, Newsom, it’s, That’s Organizations: Sierra Club of California, Environmental Defense, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund Locations: California