The Next Big Shift in California’s Climate Change Movement
An Alliance Between Two State Legislators Represents a Sharper Focus on the Needs of Low-Income, Inland Communities
She calls him Eduardo. He calls her Mrs. Pavley.
And together they epitomize big changes within the world-renowned California movement to fight climate change.
She is Fran Pavley, 67, a state senator from the San Fernando Valley who is in the final months of a distinguished legislative career that established her as the mother of California climate change policy. He is Eduardo Garcia, 39, a first-time assemblyman from a working-class Coachella Valley family known for a relentless focus on the needs of his constituents, not environmental causes.
Their fledgling alliance—over the last year …
