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Schwarzenegger Orders More Renewable Energy -- His Way. By Marc Lifsher, LA Times, September 16, 2009. "The state's electric utilities will be required to get at least a third of their power from wind, solar and other renewable resources by 2020, under an executive order signed Tuesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. 'With this action, we will ensure that California remains the pioneer in clean energy and clean jobs,' the governor said in issuing the order. But his call for California to set the nation's toughest renewable energy standard didn't generate much enthusiasm from Democratic lawmakers and environmentalist activists, who have labored for the last nine months to pass a pair of bills that they contended would boost the development of new 'green' industries in the Golden State… Schwarzenegger contended that the bills, approved early Saturday in the last hours of the legislative session and marked for vetoes, would unfairly discriminate against alternative power produced in other Western states. The legislation also would make it difficult, he argued, for electric utilities to get all the renewable power they need, when they want it."