When I broke the news last week that Disneyland is planning to ditch gas engines and make a long-overdue switch to electric or hybrid cars at its nearly 70-year-old Autopia attraction in Anaheim, I got two main questions from readers. The first, typically from fellow Disney fans, was this: What about Autopia's counterparts in Florida and Paris? Alas, I don't have anything to tell you on that front. When I asked Walt Disney Co.
Hayley Smith has the details, which include $4.3 billion to whisk away floodwaters during ever-more-dangerous storms and $1.4 billion to plant trees to help people stay cool as temperatures grow deadlier. Other parts of the state face similarly daunting risks — including Highway 1, particularly where it's perched along the coast near Big Sur.