Alan Lowenthal: “We could leverage our R&D muscle and decades of experience in renewables.”

We must achieve 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035, and the entire U.S. economy needs to reach net-zero emissions by midcentury.

These targets are certainly reasonable, and they are consistent with what the world has agreed to for climate targets.

The climate crisis is here, and it poses an existential threat to American life as we know it now.

We have subsidized the fossil fuel industry for decades upon decades in this country on our public lands...