California Sues Energy Companies For Gas Price Gouging After Voters Nearly Revolted Over Fuel Taxes

From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter May 05, 2020 6:13 PM ET Font Size: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra sued two energy trading companies Monday for allegedly colluding to increase…

Here’s Why Californians Are Getting Reamed At The Gas Pump Despite Rock-Bottom Oil Prices

From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter March 28, 2020 7:55 PM ET Gas prices are falling all over the United States, with some areas enjoying close to $1-per-gallon…

California Takes Drastic Step Towards Reducing Emissions

From oilprice.com By Irina Slav – Nov 18, 2019, 11:30 AM CST California state agencies will stop buying gas-powered vehicles from a number of carmakers after the latter joined the…

CalEPA studying ways to sunset the California economy

Reposted from Fox and Hounds Daily By Ronald Stein Founder and Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure of PTS Advance, headquartered in Irvine, California Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 California is about…

Mother Nature, Not Global Warming, is Causing the Wildfires in California

Reposted from the Chris Martz Weather Blog Well, it’s that time of the year again, wildfire season, and like clockwork, people are losing their marbles about the wildfires in California.…

Gov Gavin Newsom Struggles To Stay In Control As California Goes Dark, Wildfires Spread, And Gas Prices Spike

From The Daily Caller Chris White Tech Reporter October 26, 2019 10:35 PM ET Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is warning citizens that they could be in for a long…

Unusual Cool Temperatures over the Pacific Northwest Leads to Strong Winds and Power Outages in California

Reposted from the Cliff Mass Weather Blog Saturday brought record or near-record cold temperatures to the Pacific Northwest, and strangely enough, that led to unusual Diablo winds over northern California,…

Labor anger over Green New Deal greets 2020 contenders in California

From Politico By CARLA MARINUCCI and DEBRA KAHN 06/01/2019 09:00 AM EDT LOS ANGELES — Blue-collar union workers in solidly Democratic California are rejecting “Green New Deal” politics, a possible…

Despite renewables mandate more than 80% of California energy needs met using fossil fuels

Guest essay by Larry Hamlin California Governor Brown signed Executive Order B-55-18 last year further modifying the states reduced carbon energy targets by mandating a year 2045 goal where the…

Activists hope that fake news about droughts will win

Reposted from Fabius Maximus Blog Larry Kummer, Editor Climate change 19 May 2019 Summary: Activists hope that daily apocalyptic news stories about climate change will mold public opinion, no matter…

California’s government solely responsible for states forest management and wildfire debacle

Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The inept government, political and regulatory policies of California have clearly driven the present forest management calamitous conditions with that failure leading to disastrous wildfires…

California acknowledges government policy failures in wildfires – not nebulous “climate change” excuses

Guest essay by Larry Hamlin Articles in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Orange County Register address Governor Newsom’s declaration of a state of emergency to allow the…

California’s San Bernardino County slams the brakes on big solar projects

From The LA Times By Sammy Roth Feb 28, 2019 | 4:35 PM A view of a smaller-scale commercial solar project in Lucerne Valley, Calif., seen on Feb. 25, 2019.…

California officially becomes first in nation mandating solar power for new homes

‘Historic undertaking’ expected to boost number of rooftop solar panels across the Golden State. From The Orange County Register   By Jeff Collins | JeffCollins@scng.com | Orange County Register PUBLISHED:…

Is California hoisting itself with its own petard by filing climate change lawsuits against Big Oil?

Guest petard hoisting by David Middleton Hamlet: There’s letters seal’d, and my two schoolfellows, Whom I will trust as I will adders fang’d— They bear the mandate, they must sweep…

'Why haven't we done something already?': California mulling ban on fossil-fuel vehicles

From The National Post China will also likely order an end to sales of all polluting vehicles by 2030, the chairman of electric-carmaker BYD Co. said Thursday The internal combustion…

Feds Spend $22.8 Million Helping California Fix The Dam It Neglected For Years

US   From The Daily Caller Tim Pearce Energy Reporter   5:19 PM 08/11/2017 California is receiving $22.8 million from federal disaster officials to aid in cleanup procedures for the…

Who’s really lying on climate change? Hint: Their first names are Jerry and Arnold

This is a departure for The Sacramento Bee~ctm By Ben Boychuk Special to The Bee July 27, 2017 2:00 PM Arnold Schwarzenegger really should be careful about calling people liars.…

Tesla battery, subsidy and sustainability fantasies

More subsidies from exhausted California taxpayers cannot compensate for hard realities Paul Driessen The first justification was that internal combustion engines polluted too much. But emissions steadily declined, and today’s…

California’s “leading” climate change fighting partner China funds coal plants in Indonesia violating Paris agreement

By Larry Hamlin Governor Brown who claims that China is “leading” the fight against climate change alongside California seems incredibly oblivious to the reality that China is committed to building…

California is handling climate change all wrong – Bjorn Lomborg

  While the L A Times is busy hyping Governor Brown’s success in extending its expensive and bureaucratically onerous cap and tax law from 2020 to 2030 Bjorn Lomborg director…

California’s economy will suffer plenty from climate change. But at least it’s not Florida

MIght as well make it three California stories in a row. By Dale Kasler at the Sacramento Bee dkasler@sacbee.com Higher crime rates and electric bills. Crops and laborers wilting in…

California Counties Use Big Tobacco Lawsuit Tactics to Go After Big Oil

From Courthouse News July 18, 2017July 18, 2017 Big Oil, California, Global warming, Greenhouse gas LOS ANGELES (CN) — In a legal assault similar to the one that won multibillion-dollar…

Green Cronyism Gone Wild: It Looks Like The State Of California Is Bailing Out Tesla

Date: 18/07/17 | Wolf Richter, Business Insider The California state Assembly passed a $3-billion subsidy program for electric vehicles, dwarfing the existing program. The bill is now in the state…