The California Legislature last week received a load of bad publicity because of a new law that attempts to reduce the methane output of dairy cows dramatically — putting California on the cutting edge of worldwide efforts to regulate cow flatulence. It sounds like one of those overstated internet memes, but sadly, it’s a true story.
And it’s not even the most ridiculous case of gaseous emissions coming from Sacramento. As the Legislature went back into session Monday, the state’s newly empowered Democratic majority (following the Nov. 8 election, it now has supermajorities in the Assembly and the state Senate) spent much of its first-day floor session passing meaningless resolutions condemning the incoming Trump administration.
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