A package of energy and climate-change measures designed to stabilize California’s power supply and control consumer prices passed the state legislature on Saturday.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and top Democrats billed the package as an effort to lower power bills and maintain the state’s fuel supply amid California’s high cost of living, where residents pay some of the nation’s highest gas and electricity rates.
Newsom’s administration has cast the measures as striking a balance between that goal and the state’s transition away from oil and gas, which is also a priority for the state’s Democrats. The state’s affordability crisis threatens ...