In the span of just over a year, California Attorney General Rob Bonta dropped a pair of lawsuits on energy producers.
Neither are heroic efforts to safeguard the environment. The former will primarily harm families by worsening the nation’s pervasive affordability problems. The second is a clear effort to extract “multiple billions” from ExxonMobil while maximizing political optics in a state where the majority of voters will support anything they are told is good for the environment, especially when oil and plastic are the villains.
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Bonta’s legal war on energy companies will punish ordinary Californians
Wayne Winegarden and Kerry Jackson
In the span of just over a year, California Attorney General Rob Bonta dropped a pair of lawsuits on energy producers.
Neither are heroic efforts to safeguard the environment. The former will primarily harm families by worsening the nation’s pervasive affordability problems. The second is a clear effort to extract “multiple billions” from ExxonMobil while maximizing political optics in a state where the majority of voters will support anything they are told is good for the environment, especially when oil and plastic are the villains.
Read the full article at the San Diego Union-Tribune
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.