Now what, California?

President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is a grotesque monster to the renewable energy partisans. It phases out subsidies for wind and solar power, which have been around for decades and were extended by the previous administration’s Inflation Reduction Act. Industry sources have told the media that without taxpayer help, the renewables sector is in danger of a catastrophic collapse. What is California, which has bet its future on renewables, to do? Read the entire ...
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Newsom wisely uses political capital to secure CEQA reform

Gov. Gavin Newsom isn’t afraid to step into the political fray when it comes to standing up to President Donald Trump over national issues that impact California. He’s not always wrong when he sues the administration or speaks out against, say, ICE raids in Los Angeles. But most of those high-profile actions seem designed to burnish his national reputation. For your own safety, please don’t stand between him and a television camera. Newsom would have a better ...

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Drivers Will Pay More for State’s “Managed Decline” of Oil and Gas Production

It might be smart for oil and gas industry executives to start planning to pack up for a complete pullout from California. Or to at least notify government officials that their exit is being seriously contemplated. It’s not easy to operate a business that has been declared unofficially, but effectively, an enemy of the state. The vilification began before Gavin Newsom became governor, but it’s been noted that under his “leadership,” the state has become determined to leave its bounty of ...

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