by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In a popular Substack publication called Asterisk Magazine, a California physicist named Casey Handmer wrote a great piece titled “It’s 2024 and Drought is Optional,” about desalination technology. But he also touched on an even more fundamental point about how people don’t want to [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California energy and gas prices are through the roof The average price for a gallon of regular gas in California Friday June 5, 2026 is $5.95 – nearly $6.00 per gallon! The national average is $4.22. Two [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California is not a sovereign nation, nor is it an island The California Air Resources Board approved amendments to the Cap-and-Invest program (formerly Cap-and-Trade) Thursday ignoring ‘The Stark Reality’ Driving In-State Refining Capacity to Zero of CA’s [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel In 1937 the French poet and philosopher Paul Valéry published “Reflections on the World Today,” in which he originated one of literature’s great lines: “The problem with our times is that the future is no longer what it was.” The line was perfected later [...]
by Dimitris Papafotis NewsFire Economists and energy experts have lambasted Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) call to boycott Chevron, noting the state’s high gas prices are due to Newsom’s anti-energy agenda. This week, Newsom urged California drivers to avoid Chevron stations over Memorial Day weekend, citing high gas prices. He wrote: Californians, if you’re hitting the [...]
by Audrey Streb The Lion The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is pivoting from a long-contested chemical risk assessment program it notes Congress never authorized and critics say became a tool for targeting chemical facilities, including plants sterilizing medical equipment at the height of COVID-19. While the agency’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program was launched in 1985 as an internal library of chemical safety assessments, former agency [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel This week the Senate finally confirmed the new director of the Bureau of Land Management, former New Mexico Congressman Steve Pearce. The firestorm surrounding his nomination a few weeks earlier has not yet cooled and probably won’t. The volume is louder than the situation [...]
by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder As Appearing on The Daily Caller The weed killer Roundup was recently at the Supreme Court, pitting trial lawyers against Bayer, the manufacturer of the widely used herbicide. The issue was whether congressionally mandated federal regulation of a pesticide pre-empts holding a company liable [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel One month after proposing to put a man on the moon, JFK said getting drinking water from the ocean would be “one of the great breakthroughs of history” that would “dwarf any other scientific accomplishments.” Californians have worried about water for decades. The Colorado [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe 'Women bear the brunt of climate change’ Climate change now impacts genders? According to State Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego), Climate change impacts gender. And according to Dr. Nancy L. Cohen of the Gender Equity Policy Institute, [...]
