by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California’s oil and gas industry contributes $166 billion of economic activity to California’s Gross State Product A new study by USC Professor Michael Mische found that the factors which have contributed to California’s high gasoline prices over [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California has highest-in-the-nation gas prices and the highest energy costs, which have increased 50% since 2019 according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office Senate Majority Leader Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach) sent the Los Angles Dodgers a letter Tuesday [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Wiener’s new bill sponsored by the Center for Climate Integrity, ACTBLUE California Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) introduced a new bill to hold “Big Oil” responsible for natural disasters in California. Sen. Wiener proclaimed that “The fossil [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Turning California into Venezuela won’t improve refinery capacity – getting out of the way and cutting regulations will California has highest-in-the-nation gas prices and the highest energy costs, which have increased 50% since 2019 according to the [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe By blaming ‘climate change’ for California’s disasters, there is no accountability for politicians Californians are paying the price for climate change events and catastrophic wildfires happening in the middle of winter, said Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe How many cities, neighborhoods and houses have to burn down before the people start demanding that our priorities become the politicians priorities? During his visit to Los Angeles Friday to view the damage from the wildfires, President [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe ‘Objective science on climate has been sacrificed to politics’ Thursday in the California Assembly, lawmakers debated and voted to approve $2.5B in wildfire relief bills, only after Democrats blocked an additional $1 billion for wildfire prevention, requested [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Partisan politics took precedence over public safety With several wildfires still blazing in Los Angeles, the Globe has been reflecting on how and why this is happening, especially with the state’s recent history of devastating and deadly [...]
by Owen Klinsky The Daily Signal Trump’s inauguration approaches, President Joe Biden’s lame-duck administration is racing to Trump-proof its green jobs program. The Biden White House has “quietly been winding down” the American Climate Corps—a de facto environmental public works program established via a September 2023 executive order that hires and trains civilians to work on climate change [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe ‘This burden on the trucking industry would only contribute to the affordability crisis the State of California is experiencing’ “California has no choice but to abandon its groundbreaking rules for zero-emission trucks and cleaner locomotives,” CalMatters reports. [...]
