Soon, Californians will learn whether state leaders’ commitment to achieving 50 percent renewable energy by 2030 is backed by a willingness to make hard choices, or whether they remain subject to politics as usual. The State Lands Commission is scheduled to consider extensions for leases set to expire in 2018 and 2019 at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. The proposed extensions, through 2024 and 2025, would allow the leases and the plant’s operating license to expire simultaneously.
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