by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor
As Appearing in the California Globe
Since 1990, California’s imports of petroleum from non-U.S. producers have increased by a staggering 713%
Tuesday the Trump Administration announced plans to open nearly all U.S. waters to oil drilling leases, including new offshore leases off of the California coast, the Globe reported. The proposal outlines six lease sales in areas along the California coast between 2027 and 2030.
California Governor Gavin Newsom immediately responded that Trump’s proposal is “dead on arrival,” doubling down on California’s business-killing climate change policies, which don’t include oil.
This week, Gov. Newsom flew to Brazil for the UN Climate Summit – about 5,000 miles away. Newsom flew in along with 50,000 other elitist climate summit attendees to wail about the global climate crisis.
This “perfectly captures our elites’ nauseating hypocrisy in a grand carbon-emitting orgy traveling in hundreds of private jets to Brazil,” Climate Realists reported.
