by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Arenas and stadiums are almost always exempted from CEQA, rather than housing projects or reservoirs California Governor Gavin Newsom announced last week that he now is seeking to fast track water, storage and clean energy projects delayed [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Biased study admits conclusions are based on ‘idealized, modeled version of the world’ Earlier this week, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a $60-million plan to build a special “fish” channel to allow salmon and steelhead, sturgeon and lamprey [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe CARB used two Chinese studies on Air Pollution and Mortality in the Medicare Population “The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced on Friday that the sale of all new diesel big rig trucks and buses will be [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Trying to shoehorn an income component into utility rates converts ‘ratepayers’ into ‘taxpayers’ Last week the Globe reported that Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric and San Diego Gas & Electric had just filed a proposal [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe The White House kitchen is outfitted with a commercial natural gas stove Berkeley was the first city in the United States to ban gas stoves, in 2019. This followed the 2018 passage of Senate Bill 100 by then-Senator Kevin [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Income-based utility billing is the latest assault on the productive in California Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric and San Diego Gas & Electric filed a proposal on Thursday that would install a fixed-rate electric bill [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Maybe California should figure out how to fix our electric grid before we outlaw gas cars and trucks California is rich in natural resources which once powered the state: natural gas deposits in the Monterey Shale formation; [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe ‘Stand up for yourselves – We make the policy’ Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Gas Tax, as it is being called in some circles, would create a new panel of unelected bureaucrats with subpoena power, to investigate oil and [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe ‘You are paying the same or less for the crude oil contained in a gallon of gas or diesel, but a lot more for government’ California Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta “met with leaders [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Duh: ‘Does less oil drilling and more imports lead to higher gas prices in California?’ The Sacramento Bee published an article last week claiming that it’s not true that Californians are paying higher gas prices because the [...]
