PolitiCal Roundup: Budget talks collapse, victory for renewable-energy interests

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This time, it’s for real: Budget talks break down in Sacramento. Gov. Jerry Brown must find another way to close the state’s yawning shortfall. ‘I know we can do it,’ he says.

Labor interests are thinking of floating their own tax proposal in the wake of the talks’ collapse.

California is a big step closer to having the most ambitious clean-energy standard in the country for electric utilities.

Meanwhile, business advocates argue that California’s environmental laws have become a morass of abuses and a bonanza for litigators.