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Some good news today, for a change: the California state legislature has adopted a measure requiring the state to transition to 100% "carbon-free" electricity by 2045. The landmark climate change bill now awaits the signature of Gov. Jerry Brown.\xa0 David Roberts, Vox.com environment and energy journalist, explains what that actually means, if it is feasible, what might prevent Brown from signing the landmark measure, and why the entire effort is such a huge deal.\xa0 Last year, the state of Hawaii adopted a similar measure, but with California as the world's 5th largest economy, the move would truly turn the Golden State into a world leader on climate change action. The measure also lifts the state's current target to 60% renewable energy by 2030, because California has nearly reached its previous goal years earlier than expected. Less good news:\xa0 President Trump announced he plans to cancel a scheduled pay raise for federal workers, claiming "Federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases," after giving a $1.5 trillion tax cut to corporations and the wealthy last December and signing a $717 billion defense appropriation bill just weeks ago. Both have resulted in what even the White House now admits will be unprecedented year-after-year trillion dollar deficits, but Trump and Republicans hope to force the "forgotten men and women" of the working class -- that he pretended to care about during the 2016 election -- to pay the price for it. In West Virginia, the state Supreme Court has rejected a bid by coal baron and convicted felon Don Blankenship to circumvent the state's "sore loser" statute to run for U.S. Senate in November. Plus, Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report.'