by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe ‘This is not about electric power, it’s about economic power’ California Governor Gavin Newsom, Oregon Governor Kate Brown, Washington Governor Jay Inslee, and British Columbia Premier John Horgan “doubled down” on Thursday and signed a new Statement [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel Last summer a federal judge in California vacated a series of Trump-era rules on enforcement of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). It was a disappointment to many who had worked for years on several relatively modest reforms to make the cumbersome [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe 'Governor Newsom and Capitol Democrats are as dumb as they want to be’ Californians are paying the highest gas prices in the entire nation thanks to the state’s “windfall gas tax profits.” The average price for a [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Says he’s returning profits to Californians after passing ‘sweeping climate change’ bills further restricting oil and gas extraction “Crude oil prices are dropping, but oil and gas companies are still raising prices on California consumers,” California Gov. [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel None of my columns have ever generated as many emails and phone calls as the recent series about the Colorado River, draining Lake Powell and California’s abuse of its entitled share. When the Bureau of Reclamation decided to give that state [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Pretty much everything we use in modern society needs to be upended, overhauled, and restricted California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a “sweeping set of laws” Friday that aim to dramatically cut the state’s use of oil and [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe Soft lockdown: The parks were closed due to the forecasted heat wave’ It was 105 degrees in Sacramento Sunday. Today it could be 111 degrees. This is what is known as hot summer weather in California. We [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in the Daily Sentinel A couple of weeks ago a letter to the editor appeared in this paper and six others around the state, asserting that “Removing trees from Colorado forests will not prevent wildfires from burning.” Really? As if removing all the wood from [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe How will EVs charge with CalISO’s flex alert and energy providers pleading for electricity conservation? Thursday and Friday U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm will travel to Southern California to tour the site of one of the [...]
by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor As Appearing in the California Globe The Gov. will offer conservation tips while blaming fossil fuels rather than his climate change policies Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday morning he will discuss the heat wave expected to hit California and the entire West Coast [...]
