by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor
As Appearing in the California Globe

Except Newsom needs Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jane Fonda to bolster cause

California’s own “Hero,” Governor Gavin Newsom, has been recognized in a new series of ads attacking “Big Oil.”

“Governor Gavin Newsom Joins ‘Team of Heroes’ Standing Up to Big Oil in New Ad to KEEP THE LAW Protecting Neighborhoods from Toxic Drilling,” a press release from The Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California says.

The Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California is a coalition of public health professionals, environmental justice groups, community and faith leaders, and youth joining together to stand up to Big Oil and make sure that no Californians have to endure health hazards from living just steps from dangerous oil wells.”

Those “Big Oil” jobs pay well and provide nice benefits enjoyed by many in the middle class.

What are they talking about? And who are “they?”

To get there we have to look at who paid for the ad:

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