Newsom relinquishing control to China to meet the energy demands of Californians?
https://www.americaoutloud.news/newsom-relinquishing-control-to-china-to-meet-the-energy-demands-of-californians/ By Ronald Stein P.E. & Mike Umbro California’s Governor Newsom has been on this planet for 57 years and has yet to publicly recognize that modern life requires the use of fossil fuels to function. California is the fourth-largest economy in the world. We require products and transportation fuels made from fossil fuels to […]
LA Times: ‘The high cost of California’s green energy policies’ – ‘Cost of electricity in state is now the highest in the continental U.S.’ – ‘High energy prices are a self-inflicted wound’
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-05-07/california-gavin-newsom-renewables By Joel Kotkin Excerpt: Since the early 2000s, governors and legislators from both parties have signed onto a climate agenda in California that is making energy steadily unaffordable. Gasoline in California, according to AAA, which tracks national gas prices daily, costs an average of about $4.78, compared with $3.16 nationally. The cost of electricity […]
Watch: Morano on Fox on Spain’s Blackout: They were celebrating 100% renewables & then ‘the whole grid goes belly up’ – Also talks how Calif Gov. Newsom is still ‘dictating’ U.S. gas car bans
@ClimateDepot sounds off as Spain & Portugal are hit with massive power outages just days after Spain touted its 100% renewable energy-sourced grid. | @DagenMcdowell @DavidAsmanfox pic.twitter.com/PlMd84e9S6 — The Bottom Line (@BottomLineFBN) April 28, 2025 Full Segment: Morano on Fox on The Bottom Line – talking Spain’s energy blackout & how Calif. Gov. Newsom is […]
Trump’s stand against states’ climate overreach is long overdue
https://www.newsbreak.com/share/3981609237063-opinion-trump-s-stand-against-states-climate-overreach-is-long-overdue By Former Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) President Trump just drew a hard line against blue state climate activism — and not a moment too soon. His April 8 executive order, Protecting American Energy From State Overreach , takes direct aim at states like California, New York and Hawaii that are trying to sue American energy companies into […]
Supreme Court Case Could Spell The End For California’s EV Mandate – ‘Could lead to greater freedom for consumers & cheaper vehicle prices’
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/23/supreme-court-california-epa-emissions-rule-electric-vehicles/ By Audrey Streb The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a landmark case that could spell the end of California’s Clean Air Act waiver, which created what has been widely referred to as a de facto electric vehicle (EV) mandate in more than a dozen states. While Diamond Alternative Energy v. Environmental Protection […]
Newsom doubles down on climate policy: Seeks extension of state’s cap-and-trade signed into law by Gov. Schwarzenegger in 2006
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5251110-newsom-doubles-down-on-climate-policy/ by Rachel Frazin California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and top state Democrats announced Tuesday they would seek an extension of the state’s cap-and-trade emissions reduction program — countering Trump administration efforts to thwart such initiatives. Newsom — along with state Sen. Mike McGuire, the Senate president pro tempore, and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas — made this decision following a recent federal […]
Gasoline Prices Plunge – Except in California
Gasoline Prices Plunge – Except in California Via Committee To Unleash Prosperity: Gasoline prices have eased in 31 states as oil has fallen to below $65 a barrel since Trump came into office. But California isn’t one of them. Gov. Gavin Newsom says California’s sky-high gas prices are due to greed by “Big Oil” companies. […]
Climate Change Driving California’s Golden Road to Decline – Calif has both ‘highest number of billionaires & the highest cost-adjusted poverty rate’
Newsom’s dogged emphasis on climate change – and achieving “carbon neutrality” by 2045 – has meant massive subsidies for wind and solar, mandates to reduce personal car use by nearly three times the temporary cuts caused by pandemic lockdowns, electrification of home appliances at a cost of many thousands of dollars per household, and even cuts to dairy and livestock emissions with technology mandates, accelerating the relocation of these food producers to other states and increasing food prices.
To justify the pain, state regulators estimated that paying for these changes today would prevent future climate damage, all of which depend on highly uncertain projections spanning, in some cases, hundreds of years in the future.
This won’t end well: California State Government Now Wants to Take Over the Oil Refineries
California Now Wants to Take Over the Oil Refineries California is one of the most oil and gas-rich places in the world. But the hostility of its state government is literally driving local producers to leave. Chevron is leaving the state where it was founded 145 years ago and moving to Texas. Phillips 66 is […]
New Study finds ‘fire deficit’ in North America Forests: ‘Contemporary fire occurrence is still far below historical (1600–1880) levels’ – Fires ‘not unprecedented in comparison’ with the past – Published in journal Nature Communications
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-north-american-fire-deficit The North American Fire Deficit: A fascinating new study with incredible findings By Roger Pielke Jr. Excerpt: An important new paper published this week in Nature Communications looks at the historical record of fire in North America — A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned. Parks et al. […]