by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe Tone-deaf lawmakers ignore already failing electricity grid With wildfires burning 1.3 million acres throughout the state, and rolling power blackouts from the weak electrical grid, the California State Senate Appropriations Committee voted to pass Assembly Bill 326 to make driving an Electric Vehicle “more accessible for [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe California’s bet on renewables and shunning of natural gas and nuclear power, is directly responsible for the state’s blackouts and high electricity prices’ California is rich in natural resources which once powered the state: natural gas deposits in the Monterey Shale formation; geothermal energy, abundant rivers [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe Gov. Newsom warns: Be prepared for more power outages as heatwave continues At Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press conference Monday, he discussed the state’s heatwave, record temperatures throughout the state, and the rolling blackouts millions have to deal with over the very hot weekend. The California Independent [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe The average 2020 annual residential electricity bill was 25.9% higher than in 2010 The Center for Jobs and the Economy at the California Business Roundtable reports that California gas and energy prices continued to rise higher in July than nearly all other states. “These outcomes mean [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XXVII Spring. Click headlines for the full article. Corporate Green ‘Disclosures’ Are Often Mere Marketing by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Wall Street Journal Climate-change partisans on both sides often accuse one another of dishonesty. Here’s [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe ‘How dare you talk about Enviro racism when your policies favor your coastal elitists friends’ California Assemblyman Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) went off on California Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary Nichols Monday night after she posted an unbelievably self-serving and stupid Tweet: “‘I can’t breathe’ speaks [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe South Lake Tahoe Mayor threatening no Memorial Day, no July 4th fireworks, and maybe no Labor Day Despite that El Dorado County has reopened, the Mayor of South Lake Tahoe is telling tourists to stay away or pay a $1,000 fine. The Tahoe Basin draws millions [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe Fishing enthusiasts outraged at government overreach during COVID-19 crisis This week, California Globe reported that Charles Bonham, director of the Department of Fish and Wildlife was proposing to postpone the sportfishing season through May in rural areas, and credited the Sacramento Bee with first reporting the story. The government’s bureaucratic [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe ‘Controlling the movement of people’ for a large number of rural California counties Last week, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife delayed opening California’s recreational ocean salmon fishery through the month of April, despite plans made earlier this year for the fishery to open in [...]
by Katy Grimes As Appearing in the California Globe ‘This willingness to report others is poisoning civilized behavior’ This desire to rat out neighbors, friends, and local businesses, who may or may not be violating the order to close or stay inside the home, is a cancer feeding the totalitarian impulses of certain politicians. Sacramento [...]
