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Grist: Climate change intensified California’s current drought, and the drought may be intensifying climate change. A new report by the Pacific Institute finds that the state’s energy portfolio has continued to shift away from hydropower and toward dirtier sources of electricity (CityLab covered its 2015 report on the same subject). That’s led to a 10 percent uptick in carbon emissions from California’s power plants, and an extra $2 billion for ratepayers.
Between 1983 and 2013, hydropower accounted......
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California’s drought led to less hydropower and more carbon emissions
Posted by Grist: Laura Bliss on February 17th, 2016
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