by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe ‘We are literally choking our planet with plastic waste’ After forcing California grocery shoppers into “reusable” plastic bags at .10 cents a piece, flighty lawmakers have voted to ban them outright. California lawmakers have voted to do [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Desperate for attention, Gov. Newsom threatening special legislative session on his oil and gas controls Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California Energy Commission regulators announced earlier this month proposed government controls of the petroleum industry, ostensibly in order to [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe ‘Californians Deserve a Strategic Transition Away from Petroleum Transportation Fuels’ Just as Chevron Oil company announced that it is moving its headquarters to Houston Texas from San Ramon California, California Energy Commission regulators announced proposed government controls of the [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California’s regulatory environment is so hostile, it is nearly impossible to dig, drill, develop, mine, log, graze grow, or manufacture anything California’s own Chevron Oil company is moving its headquarters to Houston, Texas from San Ramon, California, [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe What about CARB’s Western Climate Initiative Inc., registered in Delaware? This week, Thomas Buckley reported that a slew of new California Air Resources Board (CARB) regulations roll out this year and next, but the government will not [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe ‘Conservation as a way of life:’ Demanding additional conservation from urban water users is a non-starter California’s drought conditions are actually historically normal. So are our occasional heavy wet winters – Despite Gavin Newsom’s moldy talking point [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XLIII Spring 2024. Click headlines for the full article. Epoch TV American Thought Leaders: Steve Milloy On April 30, 2024, Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder, appeared on Epoch Times TV’s ongoing show, American Thought Leaders. His interview, [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe $1.21 per gallon collected by the government in taxes and fees We already know that California’s gas prices and gas taxes are the highest in the nation. Buckle up – they are going higher. California’s gas prices [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe ‘Judges don’t weigh the correctness of an environmental report’s conclusions, only its sufficiency’ Judge Samuel T. McAdam of the Yolo County Superior Court denied an environmental lawsuit to halt the Sites Reservoir project, addressing the streamlined legal [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Reader asks ‘Whatever happened to the reservoirs that the residents of California approved to be built in 2014?’ Gov. Gavin Newsom is bragging about more than $140 million coming from the Biden-Harris Administration to support “critical water [...]
