California lawsuit says oil giants deceived public on climate, seeks funds for storm damage
1 year, 3 months ago

California lawsuit says oil giants deceived public on climate, seeks funds for storm damage

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — The state of California filed a lawsuit against some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, claiming they deceived the public about the risks of fossil fuels now faulted for climate change-related storms and wildfires that caused billions of dollars in damage, officials said Saturday. The civil lawsuit filed in state Superior Court in San Francisco “For more than 50 years, Big Oil has been lying to us — covering up the fact that they’ve long known how dangerous the fossil fuels they produce are for our planet,” Newsom said. “California taxpayers shouldn’t have to foot the bill for billions of dollars in damages — wildfires wiping out entire communities, toxic smoke clogging our air, deadly heat waves, record-breaking droughts parching our wells.” The American Petroleum Institute, an industry group also named in the lawsuit, said climate policy should be debated in Congress, not the courtroom. Richard Wiles, president of the Center for Climate Integrity, said in a statement that “California’s decision to take Big Oil companies to court is a watershed moment in the rapidly expanding legal fight to hold major polluters accountable for decades of climate lies.. Californians have been living in a climate emergency caused by the fossil fuel industry, and now the state is taking decisive action to make those polluters pay.” Heavily Democratic California is the birthplace of the modern environmental movement, and the Newsom administration is pushing to expand solar power and other clean energy as the state aims to cut emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030.

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Exxon Mobil sues California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta over plastic recycling claims
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4 days, 11 hours ago

Exxon Mobil sues California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta over plastic recycling claims

LA Times  

Oil giant Exxon Mobil has filed a defamation lawsuit against California Atty. The suit, filed Monday in federal court in the Eastern District of Texas, amounts to a counterpunch against a suit Bonta filed against Exxon Mobil last September accusing the company of greatly exaggerating the extent to which plastics can be recycled by portraying them as universally recyclable. The …

Environmental groups sue over California support for polluting biofuels
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Environmental groups sue over California support for polluting biofuels

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Several environmental groups are suing California air regulators over their recent update of a contentious climate program, saying they failed to address the pollution impacts of biofuels. The California Air Resources Board voted last month to increase the state’s emission reduction targets, fund charging infrastructure for zero-emission vehicles, and phase out incentives for capturing methane emissions from …

Maine becomes latest US state to sue oil companies over climate change
1 month, 1 week ago

Maine becomes latest US state to sue oil companies over climate change

China Daily  

FILE PHOTO: The logo of American multinational oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil is seen during the LNG 2023 energy trade show in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 12, 2023. NEW YORK -- Maine has become the latest US state to sue oil and gas companies over climate change, claiming that Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron and other giants waged a decades-long …

Maine becomes latest US state to sue oil companies over climate change
1 month, 1 week ago

Maine becomes latest US state to sue oil companies over climate change

China Daily  

FILE PHOTO: The logo of American multinational oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil is seen during the LNG 2023 energy trade show in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 12, 2023. NEW YORK -- Maine has become the latest US state to sue oil and gas companies over climate change, claiming that Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron and other giants waged a decades-long …

Maine Sues Major Oil Companies Over ‘Ongoing Deception’ About Climate Change
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Maine Sues Major Oil Companies Over ‘Ongoing Deception’ About Climate Change

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The state of Maine has filed a lawsuit against five major oil companies and their top lobbying group, accusing them of carrying out a decades-long disinformation campaign about climate change and their contribution to it in order to maximize profits. via Associated Press Maine’s lawsuit seeks a jury trial and damages that would cover the costs of …

Letters to the Editor: Regardless of Trump, the battle against climate change is picking up. Let’s keep it going
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: Regardless of Trump, the battle against climate change is picking up. Let’s keep it going

LA Times  

Postal Service worker inspects trucks in a flooded area of New Port Richley, Fla., after Hurricane Milton on Oct. 11. Last year, the average global temperature was 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average, a tipping point for much greater damage. The renewable energy transition has also reached a tipping point; new renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels, and almost …

Column: Newsom wants Californians to help on climate. He should help too
3 months, 1 week ago

Column: Newsom wants Californians to help on climate. He should help too

LA Times  

“Every day, Californians are taking small actions that collectively are helping us create a better world for our kids and grandkids,” Gov. One bill would have reversed a decision by Newsom’s appointees to the Public Utilities Commission that makes it more expensive for apartment renters, farmers, schools and strip malls to install rooftop solar panels. In his veto message for …

California sues Exxon Mobil, claims 'plastic pollution'
3 months, 2 weeks ago

California sues Exxon Mobil, claims 'plastic pollution'

China Daily  

A view of the Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas, September 15, 2008. The California lawsuit alleges that Exxon Mobil "deceptively promoted recycling as a cure-all for plastic waste" while knowing "it is extremely costly and difficult to eradicate" the plastic waste and knew that plastic predictably disintegrates into microplastics that pose an even greater harm to "all living things, …

California sues Exxon Mobil, claims 'plastic pollution'
3 months, 2 weeks ago

California sues Exxon Mobil, claims 'plastic pollution'

China Daily  

By MAY ZHOU in New York | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-09-24 11:57 A view of the Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas, September 15, 2008. The California lawsuit alleges that Exxon Mobil "deceptively promoted recycling as a cure-all for plastic waste" while knowing "it is extremely costly and difficult to eradicate" the plastic waste and knew that plastic predictably disintegrates …

ExxonMobil sued over campaign of ‘deception’ that exacerbated plastic pollution crisis
3 months, 2 weeks ago

ExxonMobil sued over campaign of ‘deception’ that exacerbated plastic pollution crisis

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The state of California has sued oil and gas giant ExxonMobil for what it branded …

California sues ExxonMobil for misleading public on plastic recycling
3 months, 2 weeks ago

California sues ExxonMobil for misleading public on plastic recycling

NPR  

California sues ExxonMobil for misleading public on plastic recycling toggle caption Mark Humphrey/AP California has filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against ExxonMobil, alleging that the company has spent decades misleading the public about the efficacy of plastic recycling. “For decades, ExxonMobil has been deceiving the public to convince us that plastic recycling could solve the plastic waste and pollution crisis when …

California lawsuit accuses Exxon Mobil of misleading the public about plastic recycling
3 months, 2 weeks ago

California lawsuit accuses Exxon Mobil of misleading the public about plastic recycling

LA Times  

Rob Bonta has filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit aimed at Exxon Mobil Corp. — one of the largest producers of petroleum-based polymers — for allegedly deceiving the public about the potential for plastic recycling and creating an environmental blight that has cost the state billions of dollars to clean. Decades of misleading marketing in newspaper The lawsuit seeks to compel the …

California attorney general sues Exxon Mobil over plastics recycling deceptions
3 months, 2 weeks ago

California attorney general sues Exxon Mobil over plastics recycling deceptions

Politico  

Exxon pointed the finger back at California. Instead of suing us, they could have worked with us to fix the problem and keep plastic out of landfills.” The suit in San Francisco County Superior Court, which comes a year after Bonta sued Exxon and four other oil majors seeking compensation for climate change damages, reflects California’s increasingly aggressive effort to …

Oil industry asks Supreme Court to block climate change lawsuits from California, other states
7 months, 1 week ago

Oil industry asks Supreme Court to block climate change lawsuits from California, other states

LA Times  

Maps show temperature ranges of California’s average hottest day of the year from 1950 to 2010, left, compared to projections for the rest of this century under different scenarios, center and right. Oil and gas companies are asking the Supreme Court to block dozens of high-powered lawsuits from California to Massachusetts seeking to hold the industry liable for billions of …

Letters to the Editor: Oil companies profit while they destroy the planet. That must end
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: Oil companies profit while they destroy the planet. That must end

LA Times  

An oil refinery is seen near Wilmington in 2016. The Times’ editorial board makes a clear, compelling argument for the California Legislature to pass the Polluters Pay Climate Cost Recovery Act, a “climate Superfund” bill. Declining profits from forcing Big Oil to cover its externalized societal costs might lower CEO salaries while stopping civilization’s death spiral. To the editor: The …

Editorial: California can make climate polluters pay for the mess they have made of Earth
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Editorial: California can make climate polluters pay for the mess they have made of Earth

LA Times  

As climate change exacts a mounting toll on California, who should pay for the damage from rising sea levels and increasingly ferocious wildfires, floods and heat waves? That’s the concept behind the Polluters Pay Climate Cost Recovery Act, a bill in the California Legislature that would create a Superfund-style program to collect money from major fossil fuel companies such as …

Column: Exxon Mobil is suing its shareholders to silence them about global warming
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Column: Exxon Mobil is suing its shareholders to silence them about global warming

LA Times  

Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods, left, listens with other oil company executives as then-President Trump spoke in the White House in 2020. The proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis & Co., which helps institutional investors decide how to vote on shareholder proposals and board elections, has counseled a vote against Hooley, citing Exxon Mobil’s “unusual and aggressive tactics” in fighting activist …

Column: Here’s what Exxon’s CEO gets wrong about the climate crisis
8 months ago

Column: Here’s what Exxon’s CEO gets wrong about the climate crisis

LA Times  

Oil and gas conglomerate Exxon Mobil could be a key player in global efforts to combat the climate crisis — if only governments would remove burdensome regulations and stop wasting money on inefficient clean energy incentives. I also shook my head in amazement as Woods suggested that a major barrier to slashing carbon pollution is that the world lacks “a …

Editorial: California can’t let big polluters win by undermining climate change disclosure laws
10 months ago

Editorial: California can’t let big polluters win by undermining climate change disclosure laws

LA Times  

California took a big step last fall when lawmakers passed a pair of laws requiring big companies doing business in the state to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related risks, shining a light on their role in fueling the climate crisis. Opinion Editorial: California’s lawsuit against Big Oil could help end decades of climate lies California’s climate lawsuit against …

Column: Hate the storm? Then start getting serious about climate change
11 months ago

Column: Hate the storm? Then start getting serious about climate change

LA Times  

You know how oil and gas pollution is supposed to bring not only hotter heat waves, drier droughts and bigger wildfires, but also more intense storms? As The Times’ Grace Toohey wrote last week, scientists have found that because of rising temperatures, a catastrophic storm “is more likely to happen and to be more intense, with a 2% chance of …

Business and agriculture groups sue California over climate disclosure laws
11 months, 1 week ago

Business and agriculture groups sue California over climate disclosure laws

LA Times  

One of the new laws requires public and private companies making more than $1 billion annually to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions beginning in 2026. Business and agricultural groups sued California on Tuesday over the most sweeping climate disclosure mandates in the nation, arguing the policies signed by Gov. Newsom, who often touts California’s status as a global climate leader, …

Delaware judge limits scope of sweeping climate change lawsuit against fossil fuel companies
1 year ago

Delaware judge limits scope of sweeping climate change lawsuit against fossil fuel companies

Associated Press  

— A judge has rejected several claims lodged by Delaware’s attorney general in a lawsuit alleging that the fossil fuel industry has downplayed the risks of climate change. While refusing to dismiss come claims, Superior Court Judge Mary Johnston ruled, for example, that the federal Clean Air Act preempts the state’s claims seeking damages for injuries resulting from out-of-state or …

Letters to the Editor: Will Newsom go down as the governor who killed solar in California?
1 year ago

Letters to the Editor: Will Newsom go down as the governor who killed solar in California?

LA Times  

To the editor: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has failed electricity ratepayers, the rooftop solar industry and the need for us to transition away from polluting fossil fuel energy. His appointments to the California Public Utilities Commission, who voted twice in 2023 to reduce incentives for homes and businesses that install solar power systems, prioritize profit for the investor-owned utilities, resulting …

Editorial: Big Oil is exploiting California’s Latinos in its latest climate disinformation push
1 year, 2 months ago

Editorial: Big Oil is exploiting California’s Latinos in its latest climate disinformation push

LA Times  

Oil pumpjacks dot the landscape near Coalinga, Calif. The Western States Petroleum Assn., one of the state’s most powerful lobbying groups, earlier this year launched a messaging campaign called Levanta Tu Voz that seems clear in its objective: to exploit Latinos’ economic anxieties to slow the transition to zero-emission vehicles and equipment. A concerned-sounding voice warns in Spanish that “new …

Editorial: California’s transportation spending doesn’t match its climate promises
1 year, 3 months ago

Editorial: California’s transportation spending doesn’t match its climate promises

LA Times  

Rush-hour traffic at the intersection of the 110 and 101 freeways in Los Angeles on June 15, 2021. Opinion Editorial: California’s lawsuit against Big Oil could help end decades of climate lies California’s climate lawsuit against big oil companies isn’t only notable for its pursuit of industry accountability for the damage being caused by fossil fuels. Of the state’s primary …

California lawmakers have a plan to plug old, vapor-spewing oil wells. Could it backfire?
1 year, 3 months ago

California lawmakers have a plan to plug old, vapor-spewing oil wells. Could it backfire?

LA Times  

As flammable gases and toxic fumes seep from thousands of abandoned oil wells across California, state legislators passed a bill last month that would require owners to set aside more funding to properly seal wells once their use has ended. If the bill is signed into law, the California Department of Conservation, the state agency overseeing oil and gas extraction, …

California Politics: Newsom and his environmental agenda take the national stage
1 year, 3 months ago

California Politics: Newsom and his environmental agenda take the national stage

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom speaks at the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York on Wednesday. Gavin Newsom headed to New York this week to talk up his administration’s efforts to combat climate change and to take a swing or two at former President Trump and his Republican compadre, Republican House Speaker …

Editorial: California’s lawsuit against Big Oil could help end decades of climate lies
1 year, 3 months ago

Editorial: California’s lawsuit against Big Oil could help end decades of climate lies

LA Times  

California’s lawsuit against some of the world’s largest oil companies is an important move by the world’s fifth-largest economy to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for decades of climate denial and deception. The suit filed last week against BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute trade group seeks to hold them liable for misleading the …

Column: The oil companies lied to us about climate change. California should sue them into the ground
1 year, 3 months ago

Column: The oil companies lied to us about climate change. California should sue them into the ground

LA Times  

The oil companies want you to see California’s newly filed lawsuit over their decades of deceit about global warming as a “hypocritical. “Climate projections reported by Exxon Mobil scientists between 1977 and 2003 were accurate and skillful in predicting subsequent global warming,” science historians Naomi Oreskes and Geoffrey Supran observed in Science in January. “ExxonMobil accurately foresaw the threat of …

California is suing Big Oil, accusing them of climate change ‘deception’
1 year, 3 months ago

California is suing Big Oil, accusing them of climate change ‘deception’

LA Times  

It’s Monday, Sept. 18. The state takes on the oil industry with an ambitious lawsuit Los Angeles could establish an independent redistricting commission The man behind the world’s best restaurant And here’s today’s e-newspaper California is suing Big Oil, accusing them of climate change ‘deception’ California is no stranger to fighting climate change with legal battles. Rob Bonta has filed …

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he will sign climate-focused transparency laws for big business
1 year, 3 months ago

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he will sign climate-focused transparency laws for big business

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — California Gov. California lawmakers last week passed legislation requiring large businesses from oil and gas companies to retail giants to disclose their direct greenhouse gas emissions as well as those that come from activities like employee business travel. “This legislation will support those companies doing their part to tackle the climate crisis and create accountability for those …

California sues oil giants alleging ‘climate risks deception’: Report
1 year, 3 months ago

California sues oil giants alleging ‘climate risks deception’: Report

Al Jazeera  

Five oil majors are accused of downplaying the risks posed by fossil fuels since the 1950s, The New York Times reports. The US state of California has sued five oil giants for their alleged role in downplaying the risk posed by fossil fuels while causing tens of billions of dollars in damage, The New York Times has reported. California’s attorney …

California sues five major oil companies for ‘decades-long campaign of deception’ about climate change
1 year, 3 months ago

California sues five major oil companies for ‘decades-long campaign of deception’ about climate change

LA Times  

California is suing five of the largest oil and gas companies in the world, alleging that they engaged in a “decades-long campaign of deception” about climate change and the risks posed by fossil fuels that has forced the state to spend tens of billions of dollars to address environmental-related damages. But Chevron issued this statement early Sunday: “Climate change is …

The GOP's suicide pact with Big Oil — and how climate victims are fighting back
1 year, 4 months ago

The GOP's suicide pact with Big Oil — and how climate victims are fighting back

Salon  

Anyone who watched the first Republican presidential debate last week watched the candidates — minus Donald Trump, of course —punt on climate. Taking aim at Joe Biden's 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, Project 2025 proposes to erase clean energy programs from the federal government entirely while boosting the production of fossil fuels. Formulated by the Heritage Foundation and distributed to all …

Climate change is the new, fast-growing field of litigation
1 year, 6 months ago

Climate change is the new, fast-growing field of litigation

The Independent  

At the last count, there were more than 1,000 cases pending in the US courts. Last month, Greenpeace and ReCommon launched a lawsuit against energy group Eni for contributing to the climate crisis via its fossil fuel operation. DWS, the German asset manager, had to settle a court case after claiming its Climate Tech Fund excluded companies active in controversial …

Lawsuit pits young climate change activists against a fossil fuel-friendly state at trial
1 year, 6 months ago

Lawsuit pits young climate change activists against a fossil fuel-friendly state at trial

The Independent  

Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. …

The laws that took down mobsters are now being turned against Big Oil
1 year, 7 months ago

The laws that took down mobsters are now being turned against Big Oil

Raw Story  

This story was originally published by Grist. Hoboken’s lawsuit is the second to argue that Big Oil colluded in a “fraudulent scheme” to conceal how their products contribute to climate change. The latest lawsuits also point to the American Petroleum Institute’s creation of a front group called “Global Climate Science Communications Team” in 1998, mirroring the tobacco industry’s efforts to …

California lawmakers block bill making oil companies liable for some health problems
1 year, 7 months ago

California lawmakers block bill making oil companies liable for some health problems

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers blocked two big environmental bills Thursday: One that would have ramped up the state’s emissions targets, and another that would have made oil companies liable for the health problems of people who live close to oil wells. They decided if the oil industry wanted to block that law, then they would try to pass another …

Can California put an end to corporate greenwashing?
1 year, 9 months ago

Can California put an end to corporate greenwashing?

LA Times  

A proposed California bill would require large companies that do business in the state to report their greenhouse gas emissions. The Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor found American Airlines’ strategies to be of “very low integrity,” saying the airline’s net-zero promise lacks a commitment to reduce its own emissions, and that its offsetting program “has the potential to mislead customers.” The …

California lawmakers approve Newsom’s oil bill. Here’s what you need to know
1 year, 9 months ago

California lawmakers approve Newsom’s oil bill. Here’s what you need to know

LA Times  

Trucks fill up at the Kern Oil & Refining Co. in Lamont, Calif. California lawmakers on Monday approved Gov. After months of deliberation, the final bill does not cap oil refinery profits or penalize the industry as Newsom had intended when he accused companies of intentionally driving up gas prices to boost revenue. Instead, the bill, SBX1-2, gives the California …

Editorial: We’re cementing climate denial with every fossil fuel project
1 year, 9 months ago

Editorial: We’re cementing climate denial with every fossil fuel project

LA Times  

A coal-fired power plant in Germany. A United Nations climate report warns that global warming is on track to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius by the early 2030s without swift reductions in greenhouse gas pollution. The U.N’s scientific assessment, approved by 195 nations, says that existing and planned fossil fuel infrastructure — all of the coal-fired power plants, oil wells and …

Newsom gives up call for lawmakers to cap oil industry profits
1 year, 9 months ago

Newsom gives up call for lawmakers to cap oil industry profits

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom, shown in January, wants the California Energy Commission to decide if oil companies should pay financial penalties on excessive oil profits. Gavin Newsom is giving up his high-profile call for the California Legislature to set a cap on oil company profits and instead will ask lawmakers to increase transparency and oversight of the industry. The governor’s amended proposal, …

Editorial: Big Oil reaps record profits while the planet burns. California should curb its greed
1 year, 11 months ago

Editorial: Big Oil reaps record profits while the planet burns. California should curb its greed

LA Times  

Gasoline was selling for nearly $8 per gallon on June 1, 2022, at a Chevron gas station located at the intersection of Cesar E. Chavez Avenue and Alameda Street in downtown Los Angeles. Last year’s spikes hit Californians especially hard, because they already pay the nation’s highest gas prices, and saw them jump even higher, reaching more than $8 a …

UN chief slams oil firms for 'big lie' on global warming
1 year, 11 months ago

UN chief slams oil firms for 'big lie' on global warming

Firstpost  

Davos: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres skewered oil firms on Wednesday for having “peddled the big lie” about their role in global warming, telling the World Economic Forum that they should be held accountable. “Just like the tobacco industry, they rode roughshod over their own science,” Guterres said, referring to lawsuits that determined cigarette companies had hidden the dangers of their …

Editorial: Big Oil shouldn’t be able to fleece Californians while polluting the planet
2 years, 1 month ago

Editorial: Big Oil shouldn’t be able to fleece Californians while polluting the planet

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom’s proposal to penalize excessive oil refinery profits is a relatively straightforward effort to prevent price gouging that reached new heights this year as gas prices in the state spiked to more than $6.40 a gallon. “If you want to achieve your climate goals, you need to have a price-gouging penalty to prevent the oil companies from weaponizing gas …

With California battered by high gas prices, Newsom wants to penalize big oil companies
2 years, 1 month ago

With California battered by high gas prices, Newsom wants to penalize big oil companies

LA Times  

The Legislature opens the special session Monday to consider approving penalties on oil companies that make excessive profits. Newsom has accused the oil industry of intentionally “price gouging” consumers at the pump as retribution for the state’s policies to phase out dependence on fossil fuels in an effort to curb climate change. Though Newsom first called for “a windfall tax …

California governor signs sweeping climate legislation
2 years, 3 months ago

California governor signs sweeping climate legislation

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of bills Friday to expand California’s reliance on clean energy and reduce carbon emissions, moves he said further establish the state as a global climate leader. “Or we can actually make demonstrable progress.” State Sen. Lena Gonzalez, a Democrat, was an author of one bill aimed at protecting vulnerable communities …

Review: The road to California’s energy disaster: A new history of PG&E paints a bleak picture
2 years, 4 months ago

Review: The road to California’s energy disaster: A new history of PG&E paints a bleak picture

LA Times  

The Camp Fire burns near Pulga, Calif., in 2018. Wall Street Journal reporter Katherine Blunt, who uncovered PG&E’s culpability in the deadly blaze, documents the company’s history in a new book. Wall Street Journal reporter Katherine Blunt tells us how the company got that way in “California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric — and What It Means …

Amid fight with oil industry, Newsom makes a last-minute pitch to harden California’s climate goals
2 years, 5 months ago

Amid fight with oil industry, Newsom makes a last-minute pitch to harden California’s climate goals

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom speaks with leaders of urban water agencies during a meeting in Sacramento on May 23. Gavin Newsom this week urged California lawmakers to harden the state’s climate and energy goals, releasing a five-point legislative plan that promises to intensify the governor’s clash with the state’s powerful, billion-dollar oil industry. York said the battle with the industry group is …

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