Taking the Gloves Off in California Battle Over Oil
California’s oil industry has an 800-pound gorilla reputation of getting pretty much what it wants in Sacramento. Armed with millions of dollars to pay lobbyi...
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Refinery Communities Speak Out on Just Transition Reports
Governor Newsom’s executive order mandating all-electric passenger cars and trucks by 2035 got quite a bit of deserved nationwide buzz last fall. What got less...
Biofuel Conversions: A Chance to Model Just Transition
While California’s aging oil production industry has been in decline for awhile now , its oil refining sector appeared stable—until it wasn’t. This past summer...
Stop Treating Oil Drilling as a Climate Policy Afterthought
There’s no doubt about it: Governor Newsom’s climate policy executive order issued last week was groundbreaking in many respects. The requirement that new cars...
"It'll Cost BILLIONS!": Big Oil Peddles Economic Doom
Industry’s approach is to count only the purported economic costs of regulation, without counting the economic value of the benefit. The economic benefit of k...
CA Refineries Are Driving Our Addiction to Oil Imports
If California truly means business about moving away from fossil fuels, it’s going to have to tackle the refinery problem—which puts surrounding communities...