by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Newsom left out the part California’s highest-in-the-nation gas taxes play in California’s highest-in-the-nation gas prices Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California Energy Commission regulators announced in early August proposed government controls of the petroleum industry, ostensibly in order to [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe ‘We are literally choking our planet with plastic waste’ After forcing California grocery shoppers into “reusable” plastic bags at .10 cents a piece, flighty lawmakers have voted to ban them outright. California lawmakers have voted to do [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Desperate for attention, Gov. Newsom threatening special legislative session on his oil and gas controls Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California Energy Commission regulators announced earlier this month proposed government controls of the petroleum industry, ostensibly in order to [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe ‘Californians Deserve a Strategic Transition Away from Petroleum Transportation Fuels’ Just as Chevron Oil company announced that it is moving its headquarters to Houston Texas from San Ramon California, California Energy Commission regulators announced proposed government controls of the [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe California’s regulatory environment is so hostile, it is nearly impossible to dig, drill, develop, mine, log, graze grow, or manufacture anything California’s own Chevron Oil company is 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 What about CARB’s Western Climate Initiative Inc., registered in Delaware? This week, Thomas Buckley reported that a slew of new California Air Resources Board (CARB) regulations roll out this year and next, but the government will not [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe ‘Conservation as a way of life:’ Demanding additional conservation from urban water users is a non-starter California’s drought conditions are actually historically normal. So are our occasional heavy wet winters – Despite Gavin Newsom’s moldy talking point [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe $1.21 per gallon collected by the government in taxes and fees We already know that California’s gas prices and gas taxes are the highest in the nation. Buckle up – they are going higher. California’s gas prices [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel In 2006, Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking said, “Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster such as sudden global warming…” and suggested colonizing other planets to ensure the survival of the human species. Some [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel California recently adopted a zero-emission requirement for all railroad locomotives in the state by 2030, which many critics are saying could cripple the nation’s freight rail network. That’s because California doesn’t have its own separate fleet of locomotives. So to keep [...]
