by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe ‘The Biden-Harris Administration’s anti-coal regulations sought to regulate out of existence this vital sector of our energy economy’ The Trump EPA is finalizing the repeal of 2024 Biden-era carbon rules for greenhouse-gas standards for coal-and natural-gas-fired power [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe 'When tensions flare in the Middle East, Californians feel it first and worst’ While national crude prices set the floor, California’s taxes, climate rules, unique fuel special blend, and diminished refining system raise the price per gallon. [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe It’s all being driven by dishonest climate policies “Governor Gavin Newsom is advancing a plan that could funnel hundreds of millions in road dollars to a struggling oil refinery — pitching it as a cleaner jet fuel [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe We are being taxed to death by Democrats in California In March, Democrats in the California Senate Environmental Quality Committee killed Senate Bill 1035 by Senator Tony Strickland (R-Huntington Beach) which would have provided immediate relief for [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Nancy Skinner is the same lawmaker who tried to ban bullets when she couldn’t ban your guns A bill to regulate car tires was passed by the California Legislature 20 years ago but never implemented. “The California [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe This is the first payment under the program Pacific Gas and Electric received $271 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to ensure the ongoing operation of Diablo Canyon Power Plant, California’s last operating nuclear plant, with [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California has highest-in-the-nation gas prices and the highest energy costs, which have increased 59% since 2020 Exactly two years ago, as Chevron Oil company announced that it was moving its headquarters to Houston Texas from San Ramon California, [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California is an outlier – no other state gets into emissions’ Equipment manufacturing executives met with California Air Resources Board (CARB) leadership in Sacramento on Wednesday for an off-the-record discussion. This followed CARB’s July 2, 2026, approval [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Legislation would also preempt state and local permitting requirements that could delay or block designated projects A new House bill introduced Thursday would allow the president to designate certain interstate oil and natural gas pipelines as critical [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe The actual problem is that Democrats’ climate policies are ramping up the cost of living in California There is no “climate crisis” in California. We have the most beautiful weather in the world. But the real crisis [...]
