Desert Sun: Gov. Jerry Brown has been busy of late pushing California forward on a number of environmental fronts.
The governor -- who began his new term challenging the state to ramp up to where it gets 50 percent of its electricity from renewable sources in the next 15 years -- preempted Wednesdays adoption of rules for his drought-response mandate with another initiative in recent days related to climate change.
Last weeks executive order sets a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent...