by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe USC Professor Mische has warned CA is Facing $8.43/gallon Gas as Refineries Close In April 2025, Valero Energy Corporation announced it would shut down its Benicia Refinery in April 2026. This hit came after Chevron Oil Company [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe The cover up is worse than the crime One year ago a series of catastrophic wildfires burned Pacific Palisades, Altadena and much of Malibu to the ground. 12 months later, most of the area still looks the [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California is producing only 23.7% of its own in-state oil/gas needs The Federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration just gave Sable Offshore Corp. a Christmas present: Sable can begin pumping oil from its three platforms [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Gas prices plunge to lowest level in four years just in time for Christmas AAA is reporting on the lowest prices we’ve seen in quite a long time: This holiday season is delivering cheaper gas prices as [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Californians are looking at gas prices to increase to $8.00 – $12.00 per gallon The nationwide average for regular gas is at its lowest level in 1,681 days — and trending lower, the White House announced this [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California’s in-state oil production has declined by approximately 65% since 2001, while its dependency on foreign imports has risen by nearly 70% “Has California’s Oil And Gas Industry Hit The Point Of No Return?” the California Globe [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Gov. Newsom is single handedly sending California into energy poverty, rather than economic and energy prosperity Most California residents recognize that California’s highest-in-the-nation gas prices are self-inflected, as is the gasoline crisis in the state. This has [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As Appearing on The Daily Caller Move over, Al Gore. The climate clown car has a new self-anointed driver. His name is Gavin Newsom. The California governor is trying to use the ongoing United Nations climate conference (COP30) to position himself as the leader [...]
by Audrey Streb The Daily Caller The major commodity trading company known as Gunvor announced a $2.395 billion “sustainability-linked, multi-currency revolving credit facility” on Friday, a day after the U.S. Treasury Department blasted the Swiss energy firm as the “Kremlin’s puppet.” Gunvor Group is “one of the world’s largest independent commodities trading houses by turnover,” [...]
by Audrey Streb The Daily Caller Democratic Governor-Elects Abigail Spanberger of Virginia and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey champion energy policies that could spell bad news for the East Coast states, several energy policy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Affordability was a major factor in both gubernatorial races, with Sherrill and Spanberger both [...]
