Bloomberg Law
March 15, 2019, 10:00 AM UTC

All-Clean Power Goals Trending Among Climate-Wary States

Bobby Magill
Bobby Magill
Reporter

One hundred percent carbon-free electricity mandates are becoming a trend nationwide—but only in blue states, not red ones.

New Mexico on March 12 became the third state after Hawaii and California to pass legislation setting a 100 percent zero-carbon electricity mandate.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) is expected to sign the bill, which requires the state’s public utilities to obtain all their electricity from zero-carbon sources excluding nuclear energy by 2045, and for electric cooperatives to go carbon-free by 2050.

Hawaii passed the nation’s first such mandate in 2015, followed by California and Washington, D.C., in ...

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