10 Reasons California Is Greener than New York

Is California beating New York in the race to a clean energy future?

“Go West, young man,” wrote Horace Greeley. “No, seriously. They have burritos over there.” When Greeley penned those words (the first few, anyway), he fired the first shot in a bicoastal battle for supremacy that still rages today. Some young Americans did indeed head west, to California, where they enjoyed surfing, sunshine and salsa. Others stayed east, in New York. I assume they went into banking. From then on, it was New York versus California. Knicks versus Lakers. Bagels versus burritos.

A new front has opened up in this ongoing war. Both California and New York are tackling big problems like climate change, air pollution, safe transit and access to renewable energy. But while the Golden State sails to a greener future on a tide of cutting-edge clean-energy technology, New York is caught in the doldrums, struggling to catch up.

Here are 10 reasons why West is best.

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