We'll still need some new power plants, but this is a giant step forward.

The complaints from wireless customers are as strong as ever. Yet they feel they've got the political strength to fight any regulation, anywhere it pops up.

That tells me we need enforceable rules to protect consumers.

The California Solar Initiative is the largest solar program in the country, and I hope it will be a model for other states.

The collective impact of power plants is their contribution to greenhouse gases which would cause warmer and wetter or warmer and dryer conditions. It is likely that the warmer weather would increase the loss of moisture to the atmosphere more than the slightly increased precipitation will add to the overall water balance creating a net moisture deficit.

Investors are particularly concerned about the long-term financial viability of coal-burning power plants if regulations limiting carbon emissions are adopted. Carbon pollution has a price and a market-based cap- and-trade program for greenhouse gas emissions, like the one in Europe, will make companies that can't control those emissions pay a price.