by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe How is this going to work as Gov. Newsom pushes California to an all-electricity grid? PG&E’s alert says: “A Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) occurs in response to severe weather to help prevent a wildfire. A severe [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California’s worst fire season on record could have been averted The June 2021 report which exposed that Gov. Gavin Newsom misled the public about his wildfire prevention efforts by 690%, should have obligated applicable state agencies to [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Of the 2014 voter-approved water bond, $2.7 billion for new water storage projects still unused In 2014, California voters approved $7.12 billion in bonds for state water supply infrastructure projects. Of that, $2.7 billion was designated for [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Rep. Doug LaMalfa: Power Plant at Lake Oroville stopped making power Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale), Senator Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber), and Assemblyman James Gallagher (R-Marysville) met this week at the top of the Oroville Dam to decry Governor [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe LaMalfa made video series exposing organized crime illegal marijuana grows in Siskiyou County With the federal Resilient Federal Forests Act introduced this week with the support of more than 70 bipartisan Members of Congress and over 85 organizations, [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Power outages, rolling blackouts didn’t used to be the norm in California; they are now Last week, Californians learned that Pacific Gas and Electric told state utility regulators that a damaged fuse box from a one of [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Univ. Wisconsin study links to Journal of Chinese Governance Residents of Sacramento seemed to be particularly enthusiastic about snitching on water wasters, according to a recent study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Sacramento Bee published an [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe 366,000 jobs in California are supported by the oil and gas industry California’s Geologic Energy Management Division just denied 21 oil drilling permits in Kern County this week. “State Oil and Gas Supervisor Uduak-Joe Ntuk sent letters [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe AAA reports gas prices increased 40% since start of year and still going up up up The national gas price average increased 40% since the start of the year, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA). “Starting the year [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe The right to exclude is ‘one of the most treasured’ rights of property ownership The United States Supreme Court just affirmed Wednesday that the government cannot force people to allow third parties to trespass on their property. [...]
