To legally justify chopping down thousands of oak trees to build a controversial solar farm, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors last year relied heavily on what is now false information — that the project was needed to meet the zero-carbon emissions goal of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.
How wrong our supervisors were.
SMUD canceled its power purchasing agreement on Monday with the so-called Coyote Creek project, which entails the loss of about 3,500 oaks on more than two square miles of land…