Landmark climate change law extended in California

In an increasingly rare act of bipartisanship, Democratic and Republican lawmakers in California voted on Monday to extend the state's cap-and-trade climate program. The initiative, which would have ended in 2020 but has now been extended to 2030, has been praised by Gov. Jerry Brown (D) as being a model for other states that want to lower their carbon emissions. "Tonight, California stood tall and once again, boldly confronted the existential threat of our time," he said in a statement released...