LA TIMES: California needs to get its act together on rooftop solar

BY SAMMY ROTH, COLUMNIST 

Government officials in California and the rest of the country should be doing everything they can to support clean energy.

In a world racked by increasingly dangerous heat waves, fires and storms — not to mention startlingly deadly air pollution — it’s hard to go wrong throwing money at climate-friendly energy sources that can replace climate-disrupting coal, oil and gas.

So when the California Public Utilities Commission proposed this summer to slash incentives for apartment dwellers, schools and farms that want to install solar panels — a vote is scheduled for next week— I was immediately skeptical.