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 Congress and the Trump admin should tell Gov. Newsom to clean up his own state – then offer special federal tax break directly to the fire victims In what can only be described as arrogance and chutzpah, [...]
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 EPA Chief Zeldin moves to kill off California regulation waivers EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin just sent California’s vehicle emissions waiver request to Congress for review. This is big and kills California Governor Gavin Newsom’s ban on gas-powered [...]
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 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. [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Make politicians and appointees answer questions about policy, procedures, funding, orders and priorities The eye-opening failures we’ve witnessed in the Pacific Palisades and Los Angeles fires could potentially occur all over the state. Because, it boils down [...]
