Oil And Gas

California’s taking an environmental beating. Orange County was hit with its largest oil spill in three decades when at least 126,000 gallons of crude oil spewed from a leaking pipeline connected to an offshore platform. The oil slick — which was first reported Saturday and grew large enough to cover the city of Santa Monica […]

California's state budget exemplifies the political tension between the present and the future.

California has a lot of moratoriums it needs to worry about. Even as Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers rush to extend California’s eviction moratorium before it expires next week, another big deadline looms on the horizon. In November, the state’s moratorium on insurance companies dropping coverage for Californians living in wildfire-prone areas is set […]

The state needs to reform electricity rates to ensure all Californians can cash in on the benefits of the clean, electric technologies.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mixed response to fracking reflects an attempt to placate party factions in advance of a recall

Never has it cost so much to buy a house in California. The median price for a single-family home shot up to a staggering $758,990 in March — a nearly 6% increase from the previous record of $717,930 set in December and a whopping 24% increase from March 2020, according to figures released Friday by […]

The move comes after environmentalists lambasted Newsom for failing to tackle California’s oil and gas production. The oil industry called it an “illegal mandate” and vowed to fight it. Fracking accounts for only 17% of California's oil production.

La medida se produce después de que los ambientalistas criticaron a Newsom por no abordar la producción de petróleo y gas de California. La industria petrolera lo llamó un "mandato ilegal" y prometió combatirlo.

I’ve led the state Democratic Party’s environmental caucus for eight years, but I am alienated by leadership that prefers jobs on a dying planet.

Californians should remember that having abundant goods and services requires raw materials and industrial processing.