Today's vote promises to ultimately eclipse dirty and expensive fossil fuel with clean and efficient solar power.

At the end of the day, this is the biggest solar power bill in the nation.

As huge energy bills hit California mailboxes this month, there is no better time to jumpstart a mainstream solar power market. Today's vote promises to eclipse expensive and imported fossil fuels with clean and homegrown solar power.

Biomass power is a direct replacement for conventional fossil fuel energy plants. It doesn't have to be a clear sunny day (to work).

the president’s major donors from the fossil fuel industry.

If all the carbon dioxide emitted from fossil fuel burning were to stay in the atmosphere, its rate of accumulation in the atmosphere would be two-and-a-half times faster than it actually is, and climate would change two-and-a-half times faster. Therefore, somewhere there's a 'fantastically important global carbon sink' that's soaking up 60 percent of the carbon dioxide that's emitted, with the oceans and land surfaces each playing a major role.