The bill expands on California's landmark 2006 law, which set the goal of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

The measures in the most populous USA state would extend by 10 years California's main greenhouse gas reduction program and beef up oversight of the state agency charged with implementing it.

It will "keep California on the move to clean up the environment", Brown said in a Los Angeles park before signing a pair of bills that survived heavy opposition from the oil industry, business groups and Republicans.

After the new legislation was approved by lawmakers last month, Brown said he would have additional leverage to persuade businesses to support an extension of cap and trade. The new requirement would "make it possible" for the state to cut emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. Here in 2016, California is well on its way to hitting its Governator-mandated emissions target, and its economy is going strong.

Brown signed another bill, AB197, that gives lawmakers more oversight of regulators and provides aid to low-income or minority communities located near polluting facilities such as oil refineries and factories.

We're talking about a world where California gets more than 50 percent of its electricity from renewables in 2030 (up from 25 percent today), where zero-emissions vehicles are 25 percent of the fleet by 2035 (up from about 1 percent today), where high-speed rail is displacing auto travel, where biofuels have replaced a significant chunk of diesel in heavy-duty trucks, where pastures are getting converted to forests, where electricity replaces natural gas in heating, and on and on.

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"One big accomplishment to date of California climate policy is demonstrating that we can cut greenhouse gases and still achieve impressive economic growth", she said in an email.

The governor, who has traveled the world promoting greenhouse-gas reduction efforts, issued an executive order a year ago setting the 2030 goals contained in SB32. Brown's office said the measures codify the goals the governor set in an executive order on April 29, to reduce greenhouse gas pollution over the next decade and a half. Brown signed the two bills into law at the Vista Hermosa Natural Park. "California is doing something that no other state has done".

"I'm a native Angeleno, who grew up in the San Fernando Valley", said Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, a former teacher with a master's in environmental planning from Cal State Northridge.

While her bill continues California's leadership on climate policy, with many other states expected to follow suit, she said it will work hand-in-hand with AB 197 to make sure greenhouse gas limits are implemented fairly.

The legislation doesn't address the future of the state's cap-and-trade program.

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