“I know what climate leadership does not look like, and that is $10 gas,” Democratic Assemblyman Cottie Petrie-Norris told regulators at the hearing.
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Liability for Climate Change: An Inequitable Economic Disaster
What is already clear are the serious and senseless economic consequences that will follow if states are allowed to punish fossil fuel companies for their lawful past production.
Another refinery closure in California increases the States’ dependency on China.
Over the last several decades, California’s passion to transition away from fossil fuels has overregulated and overly burdened just the SUPPLY of oil production and refining but has not reduced…
Gavin Newsom Begs Regulators To Keep Refineries In Biz After California Dems Ran Industry Out Of Town
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking a state regulator to try to keep oil refineries in business in the state after Democrats spent years targeting the industry with aggressive…
From Refineries to Fiefdoms: Is Newsom Orchestrating a State Takeover of California’s Oil Industry?
California’s refining capacity is collapsing—not because demand has disappeared, but because it is being deliberately dismantled by regulatory fiat. The recent announcement that Valero Energy will idle or shutter its…
Climate Change Driving California’s Golden Road to Decline
In embracing the catastrophism that defines climate change as an existential threat to life on the planet, Newsom has left behind the old progressive notion of focusing on materially improving…
California’s Dangerous Path: Oil Refinery Takeovers and the Coming Supply Crisis
California’s energy policies have been walking a tightrope for years, but now, the state is contemplating an extreme measure that could tip it into full-blown crisis mode: taking over oil…
California’s Latest Climate Lawsuit Scheme: Sue Oil Companies for Wildfires, Ignore Reality
Ah, California lawmakers are at it again, pushing the boundaries of legal absurdity with a bill that would allow victims of natural disasters to sue oil companies for damages. Yes,…
California Battery Storage: Continuing Fire Problems
California is leading the nation in battery energy storage. No current figures are available, as the sector is growing so fast it is difficult to keep up. At the end…
Massive Fire Engulfs Moss Landing Battery Plant, Triggers Evacuations
A fire is raging at the Vistra Energy battery storage plant in Moss Landing, one of the largest such facilities in the world. The blaze, which erupted late Thursday afternoon,…
A DEI Green New Deal Hydrogen Bomb
In a better world the state could be put into receivership and its assets properly managed, absent that, many agencies and offices in the state are ripe for a thorough…
California’s Exxon Lawsuit Is Guided More By Symbols Than Actions
The lawsuit also seems to neglect the enormous benefits that plastics have brought to ordinary people, including Californians. Despite ongoing challenges with recycling, plastics are attractive because they are extremely versatile, cheap…
International Regulatory Authority Says California Grid at Risk of Energy Shortfalls
“With a resource portfolio that includes a substantial amount of solar [panels], the risk of supply shortfall is associated with summer evening periods when demand is high and solar output…
Next EV Battle Pits Truckers And Red States Against California-Led ‘Cartel’
Fully electrifying the U.S. commercial truck fleet could cost nearly $1 trillion in infrastructure investment alone, according to a report from Roland Berger released in March by the Clean Freight…
An Intense Christmas Atmospheric River. No California Drought This Year
The result or this atmospheric river and some weaken cousins this week, will be massive rainfall on the West Coast.
The California offshore wind environmental impact statement is full of holes
Note that this is the first one for floating wind turbines which is very different from the fixed turbines being built along the Atlantic coast. Floating wind is still an…
California “purifies” its little air bubble at the expense of its residents.
It is appalling that wealthy California with its “green mandates” continues to burden its residents with humongous costs to transition to just electricity, and support unethical, immoral, and hypocritical actions…
Elon Musk: CA Gov. Newsom’s Plan to Exclude Tesla From Rebate Program is “Insane”
A governor targeting one of the most popular entrepreneurs in the country and hurting his citizens to do so is unappealing to Americans in today’s environment. It will be even…
NC Floods, CA Drought, and The Role of Randomness
There seems to be some misunderstanding about 100-year events. These almost always apply to a specific location. So, you could have 100-year events every year in the U.S., and as…
‘Political Posturing’: Newsom Signs Law Empowering Bureaucrats to Meddle Even More with Oil Refiners
While many California Democrats blame corporate greed and manipulation for those prices, stringent environmental regulations and taxes on energy producers are primarily responsible for driving up those costs, energy experts…
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