Editorial: Supporting Fusion Power and Clean Energy Must Be State’s Goal To Help Mitigate Climate-Change Effects

That’s all the more reason to celebrate Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signing of SB86 last week. The bill, introduced by Tri-Valley Senator Jerry McNerney, extends tax cuts under the California Advanced Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority for many industries, especially those developing carbon-neutral technologies to help mitigate the effects of climate change.

For the first time, those tax cuts will also apply to the commercial fusion-power industry. Commercial-scale fusion power may be a decade or more away, but the time to encourage the industry’s growth in California is now.

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