by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Gov. Newsom signed a package of ‘sweeping legislation’ in September 2022 to achieve statewide carbon neutrality In 1988, the state of California only imported about 4.5% of all the oil that we consumed in our state. By 2020 [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Even Elon Musk knows 52% of his cars are plastic and therefore the US needs more oil and gas production, not less As of 2024, more than 1 out of 6 households, or 21.12 million Americans are [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe This latest hit comes after Chevron Oil Company announced move to Houston, and Phillips 66 will shut down Los Angeles refinery by October 2025 California Democrats’ war on the oil and gas industry is working, but not [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Trump is committed to unleashing American energy through the removal of all illegitimate impediments to energy production President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that targets California’s climate change laws and policies, specifically naming California’s sketchy [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Wiener and the Rockefeller-backed Center for Climate Integrity suffered an important loss California Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) introduced a bill in February to hold “Big Oil” responsible for natural disasters in California. You read that right [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California refiners have not engaged in widespread price gouging, profiteering, price manipulation California’s average price for a gallon of gas today is $4.918; The national average cost for a gallon of gas is $3.260. In Texas that [...]
E&E Legal joined Heartland and more than 30 other organizations in a joint letter sent to Trump Administration officials and Members of Congress "urging action to counter a radical new European Union law that would impose foreign ideological mandates on U.S. businesses and erode national sovereignty,'" as notes a Heartland Institute press release. The letter [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Trump Energy Department slashing unnecessary red tape and regulations that raise prices, reduce consumer choice, and frustrate the American people They are coming for your gas-powered car, your gas stove, your gas water heater, your gas furnace, [...]
by John Baker The News Observer The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, established with over $1.5 billion in federal loan guarantees from the U.S. Department of Energy under former President Barack Obama, is facing closure after a decade of operation. The solar energy project has struggled in delivering on its promises, producing less electricity than anticipated [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe The Globe finds another non-profit in need of DOGE Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced earlier this month that the EPA will undertake 31 historic deregulation actions to advance President Trump’s Day One executive orders and [...]
