by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Attempting to be relevant, Gavin Newsom has CA Air Board promote climate crisis The California Air Resources Board voted Friday to approve new gas regulations which will result in as much as a .65 cent per gallon [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe This is a massive redistribution of private sector wealth The California Air Resources Board, which will be voting on new gas regulations Nov. 8th likely resulting in a .65 cent per gallon increase in gas prices, proudly [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California’s planned power outages are the new normal Over the weekend, California utility company Pacific, Gas and Electric shut off power in 12 counties as a countermeasure to ‘wind spikes and fears of wildfires. This is a [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Phillips 66 will close its refinery in Los Angeles in 2025 Phillips 66 announced Wednesday that it plans to close operations at its Los Angeles-area refinery late in 2025. The company said in a press statement that [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Move over Al Gore… How is California Governor Gavin Newsom going to jump back onto the national stage? Once his role as Joe Biden’s surrogate presidential candidate was shattered as Democrats replaced him with Kamala Harris, how [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Supply shortages are an outcome of California’s regulatory policy and fail to reflect the energy industry’s cyclical nature’ Chevron President Andy Walz sent a letter Tuesday condemning Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to decrease the state’s gas supply, [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Calif. Energy Commission is 3 months behind on refiner management report You are probably getting tired of me rhetorically asking, “If the ‘Big Oil’ companies are so greedy, why are they only greedy in California and not [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Assembly Democrats’ vote to Increase CA’s highest-in-the-nation gas prices If the ‘Big Oil’ companies are so greedy, why are they only greedy in California and not greedy in every state? California’s Assembly Democrats voted Tuesday to [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe If the ‘Big Oil’ companies are so greedy, why are they only greedy in California and not greedy in every state? AAA reports today that the national average gas price is $3.22 per gallon, while the average [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe A ‘statewide poll’ on plastic pollution in 2022, used a sampling of 379 California residents California Governor Gavin Newsom, who signed the first plastic bag ban in the country in 2007, to no avail, just signed a total [...]
