Ellen and Elly offshore oil platforms nearby Long Beach (Photo: www.bsee.gov)
California Bills to hold ‘Big Oil’ Responsible for Disasters Sponsored by Notorious Leftist Groups
The California Governor and Democrats aren’t working on behalf of Californians
By Katy Grimes, June 7, 2025 2:55 am
California Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) introduced a bill in February to hold “Big Oil” responsible for natural disasters in California. Senator Wiener is blaming the oil and gas industry for natural disasters – disasters that should have been mitigated – at least partially – by the State of California.
Senate Bill 222 would allow the state FAIR Plan, insurance companies, and individuals to sue oil and gas companies for wildfire damages. Sen. Wiener proclaimed that “The fossil fuel industry is fueling climate change,” and then announced Senate Bill 222 to force the oil and gas industry to pay for all disasters in the state – and in doing so, will allow insurance companies and victims of fires, floods, rain and sleet, wind events, mudslides, and earthquakes to sue fossil fuel companies for damages, the Globe reported in January.
SB 222 bill analysis says that “this bill is sponsored by the Center for Climate Integrity, California Environmental Voters, and Extreme Weather Survivors. It is supported by a number of environmental and consumer advocacy groups, including Consumer Watchdog and Sierra Club California. It is opposed by a wide variety of business associations, labor groups, and oil and gas representatives, including the Western States Petroleum Association and the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California.
“Sponsoring Wiener’s bill is the Rockefeller-backed Center for Climate Integrity, which brags that they are “Exposing Big Oil’s Lies & Demanding Accountability.” The Center for Climate Integrity is a Washington DC non-profit. …Wondering how much funding they have received from USAID…
As the Globe reported in February, the Center for Climate Integrity claims, that “California voters support recovering insurance losses from Big Oil, new poll finds.”
Really? What is this new poll?
Why it’s a poll conducted by the Center for Climate Integrity and Data for Progress of 656 likely voters.
“From January 28 to 30, 2025, Data for Progress and the Center for Climate Integrity conducted a survey of 656 likely voters in California, including an oversample of Los Angeles County, using web panel respondents,” Center for Climate Integrity says.
See how easy that is – just create your own poll to support your position. Who knew?
Sen. Wiener’s bill didn’t make it out of its first committee, so while it appears to be killed, Sen. Wiener was granted reconsideration, meaning it’s not dead yet.
These are the same Democrats who killed bills this week which would have suspended the Low Carbon Fuel Standard gas tax increase of 65 cents a gallon from going into effect, on top of the gas tax increase July 1st. So they actually voted to allow a ginormous 65-cent hike in gas prices starting next year.
However, on top of gas tax increases, there is another lurking bill, AB 1243, to create the “Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025.”
The purpose of this bill is to blame the oil and gas industry for “climate change” caused by greenhouse gas emissions, and then saddle the industry with funding a Superfund to pay for the cost to mitigate the ravages of climate change. The bill analysis explains – I’ve broken out the statements with bullet points [Emphasis the Globe]:
- this bill would establish the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund.
- The bill would task the California Environmental Protection Agency with studying the emissions of various covered entities
- then assessing damages on those entities related to the proportional share of emissions those entities caused.
- Proposed amendments will cap this cost recovery at no more than five percent of a responsible party’s cumulative net income for the covered period.
- The bill then directs those funds to be reinvested into California communities to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
AB 1243 is also stalled, stuck in a committee, likely because even a few Democrat lawmakers in California know in their hearts that this bill, and Senator Wiener’s bill, are immeasurable, incalculable (not that they care, but it makes them look bad).
Does CalEPA really get to legally accuse California’s legally operating oil and gas producers and refiners of “damage caused by covered fossil fuel emissions?” What damage? We know what they really want is what they say aloud: “to require fossil fuel polluters to pay their fair share of the damage caused by covered fossil fuel emissions.”
Bill analysis says “This bill is co-sponsored by the Center for Biological Diversity, California Environmental Voters, and the Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California, and is supported by a sweeping coalition of environmental advocates, labor organizations, environmental justice advocates, some local governments, and immigrant advocates. The proponents of the bill highlight the massive socialized costs this state has already had to absorb to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change.”
This is an attempt to create another political slush fund – Superfund size.
If the bill really seeks to hold oil and gas companies financially accountable for emissions that cause climate change, does it stop with the oil and gas industry? I’m betting the agriculture industry is next on the chopping block. And why stop there – automobile manufacturers will be deemed Superfund polluters as well. And gas appliance makers. And paint manufacturers, and commercial printers, and asphalt companies, and cement manufacturers…
The authors of this bill are trying to bankrupt the oil and gas industry, and put them all out of business, at least in California. These are the authors of AB 1243:
Assemblywoman Dawn Addis (Coauthors: Assembly Members Connolly, Garcia, Haney, Kalra, Pellerin, Rogers, Schultz, and Ward)
(Coauthors: Senators Allen, Gonzalez, Menjivar, Stern, and Wiener)
Remember those names.
Tellingly, bill analysis says the quiet part aloud:
Dating back to the Obama Administration, federal officials have attempted to quantify the social cost of carbon emissions.
The social cost of carbon reflects the estimated cost of the damage done by each additional ton of carbon emissions.
In 2022, the Biden Administration updated the social cost of carbon emissions to note that each ton of carbon emitted cost $51. (Asdourian & Wessel, What is the social cost of carbon?, The Brookings Institute (Mar. 14, 2023). Given that the United States emits 6,343 million metric tons of carbon annually the social cost of these emissions is staggering.
This bill recognizes that for most of the last century the cost of carbon emissions has been socialized while the profits associated with oil and gas productions have been privatized.
In the past decade, this state has witnessed horrific wildfire, floods, and drought, all made worse by climate change.
What? “Wildfire, floods, and drought, all made worse by climate change?” Where are Democrats getting their data and facts? The EPA, the Brookings Institute, the World Economic Forum. Bill analysis says:
The World Economic Forum notes that between 2000 and 2019 climate change cost the global economy $143 billion annually. (Paige Bennett, Climate change is costing the world $16 million per hour: study, World Economic Forum (Oct. 12, 2023). More troubling is the fact that by 2050, the World Economic Forum estimates the annual cost of carbon emissions will exceed $1.7 trillion.
The same World Economic Forum which recently launched an investigation into its founder, Klaus Schwab, alleging misconduct? The same World Economic Forum that hosts the Davos gathering where a bunch of billionaires and uber elites plot to run the world and force all of us to eat bugs? The same World Economic Forum that Klaus Schwab told world leaders to give over full control of their countries or risk losing power and influence? The same World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders program self-appointed uber elite Gavin Newsom graduated from?
The California Governor and Democrats aren’t working on behalf of Californians. Their real bosses are listed above.
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The consequences of electing perverts to government office and positions of responsibility that afford the creeps dominion over you is exemplified by the collapse into the abyss that is California.
Most of what’s wrong with California originates from the bay area.
Oh MY God!
It always baffles me that the idiots in charge blame the oil companies for all their woes. Without the oil companies and their products, none of these morons would have a life. No transportation, no heat, no homes, nothing. And doesn’t the fact that everyone of them has used said products throughout their entire live makes them complicit?
Hydrocarbon fuels provide for the quality of life our aspiring dominators strive to take from us.
When refineries leave and gas completely has to be imported the costs of EVERYTHING will go up and those remaining in CA will wonder why they pay more than other states and complain about it without looking into their own democrat agenda.
Businesses will certainly leave with such high costs to other states – CA is on a suicide mission.
They must think that we are all morons.
Nothing to see here but a broke and failing state government trying to financially dig itself out of a hole. I’m sure the game is to get the oil companies to pay a “settlement” then continue to vilify them for high prices. This looks like a reboot of the tobacco lawsuits/ settlement shakedowns of yesteryear.
Hopefully we can rid ourselves of these legacy politicians soon!
Katy Grimes has astutely pointed out that this idiotic legislation is an just attempt to create another political slush fund by the criminal Democrat thug mafia in the legislature that will have no oversight and that they’re really working for some nefarious masters like the WEF globalist cabal instead of hard working legal Californians.
Maybe it’s time that fed up Californians take their state back and start suing Gov. “Hair-gel Hitler” Newsom and the criminal Democrat thug mafia in the legislature along with their appointed stooges in nebulous agencies like CARB for destroying this state with their failed Marxist globalist policies?
Creepy Democrat Senator Scott Wiener who authored Senate Bill 222 is a deep-state Harvard trained lawyer from back east who looks like he climbed out of a crypt. He’s a calculating ingrate as Katy Grimes has previously pointed out and he’s a radical leftist member of the alphabet rainbow mafia who hides behind a Jewish identity while pushing the deep-state WEF globalist agenda. He has a predatory obsession with vulnerable youth and he probably has a dungeon in his home were all sorts of perversion is carried out?
Democrat Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi is the principle coauthor of Senate Bill 222 and he represents the South Bay Region in Assembly District 66, which includes upper income communities like Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Rolling Hills Estates, and Rancho Palos Verdes. How many of his voting constituents are clamoring for this legislation? Few to none? With crime and homelessness being out of control in that part of LA County, probably most of his constituents are concerned about those issues instead?
Democrat Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi previously authored AB-345 which was a crazy bill that would have “set up buffer zones between oil wells and public areas where children are present” which thankfully failed in the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee. Not surprisingly Assemblyman’s Al Muratsuchi’s major campaign contributors are teacher and labor unions and he was endorsed by the radical far left California Federation of Teachers that’s affiliated with the AFL-CIO. He and his union thug cronies have a lot in common?
Who is Democrat Assemblywoman Dawn Addis, the author of AB 1243, that would allow the unelected Democrat appointed stooges at CalEPA to target the oil and gas industry with fines and to put fines collected into a slush fund with no oversight? Dawn Addis worked as a teacher indoctrinating kids (no doubt with a leftist bias?) in the San Luis Coastal Unified School District for 20 years. In 2016, she founded the San Luis Obispo chapter of the Women’s March that was part of the #MeToo movement. Before being installed in the California State Assembly for the 30th district in 2022, Addis served as a member of the Morro Bay City Council from 2019 to 2022 and as mayor pro tempore from 2019 to 2021. A lifelong Democrat and a radical leftist activist, she’s basically been a burden on taxpayers her entire working career and she would probably starve if taxpayers weren’t supporting her?
Assemblywoman Dawn Addis has been involved in some controversies during her short political career. While she was running as a city council candidate for Morro Bay, she attended a fundraiser for her that was hosted by marijuana mogul Helios Dayspring. Initially, Addis failed to report the fundraiser as required by law, but after the event was reported by Cal Coast Times, she amended her financial disclosure form to include the fundraiser.
Another controversy arose during her tenure as a city council member, where she faced criticism for allowing the transfer of the city’s state water allocation to the University without adequate public input. Critics questioned her actions and motives, suggesting that she might not be prioritizing the needs of the citizens she represents.
Assemblywoman Dawn Addis sounds like a typical far-left Democrat with ZERO ethics who is more than willing to do whatever it takes to further her dark agenda? Why would voters on the Central Coast support someone like her? Maybe they didn’t and maybe she was installed into office with Democrat voter fraud?
Thank goodness Katy Grimes continues to tackle this stuff, like a dog with a bone, so that we all remain aware of this endlessly corrupt Dem politician insanity (see especially Newsom, Wiener & Co.), the kind of insanity that (metaphorically) needs to be in a strait jacket 24/7, confined to a mattress lined cell, on strong anti-psychotic meds, and shut behind quadruple-locked steel doors with iron bars across the peephole.
Until then, some practical advice? Please consider supporting FixCalifornia.com to help restore “clean enough” election sanity to this state. With that team steadily working to clear out the termites we may even be able to overcome this crap in spite of a good amount of the usual insidious rigging and cheating by the Usual Suspects.
Senator Wiener inserted a specific petroleum-based product exclusion in his bill: Vaseline.
Excellent observation.
We can presume the Castro to be a veritable POL site.
Nice photo of two beautiful examples of Western civilization.
Guess where these groups got their money? USAID and other government programs that have been funneling OUR money to leftists working to destroy civilization.
DOGE these b*stards until they all have to get jobs at Starbucks.
Won’t happen. Trump has abandoned the concept of a fiscally responsible government by advocating more deficit spending and he too advocating the Democrats dream of eliminating the debt ceiling statues: Donald Trump has placed America on the slippery slope to ruin: The genesis of his falling out with Musk.
We need the Feds to come in here, and save our state from these Communists. Thehe Feds and others to sue this state government until it is completely broke. California is in a crisis.
Why is only Tesla and other electric vehicles the only cars & trucks made in California? Internal combustion auto manufacturers were “blamed” and sued by AG Jerry Brown with the backing of the California Legislature and most picked up stakes and moved away. Later, the Legislature scratched its combined head wondering why cars were no longer made in the state despite being the largest auto market in the USA.
Another consideration Big Green won’t talk about is the social benefit of Carbon, a benefit to society that more than supersedes the “social costs” of carbon emissions.
Looking at the info at “Our World in Data” website tells so much about the benefits. In the past 100 years, so much of humanity has risen out of poverty, food production is soaring despite the contrarian cries from the doom-mongers, deaths from weather/climate events are a fraction (and fingers keep pointing at deaths by cold over heat by six-to-one), and on and on.
The track record of the last 50-plus years of predictions vs. outcome also points to the contrary of Big Green and their promotion of doom.
Bottom line is that as the CO2 in the atmosphere creeps up so slightly year after year –and mankind’s contribution is estimated at less than 4% of the world’s emission according to some studies–resulting that the world’s misery and woes has descended drastically, except from the government created-and-imposed infliction to humanity.
In California the government imposed suffering seems to run rampant and unabated much like a druggy on a bad trip.
And yet a study by two Italian researchers show that natural disasters have actually decreased this century.
“We analyze temporal trends in the number of natural disasters reported since 1900 in the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) from the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). Visual inspection suggests three distinct phases: first, a linear upward trend to around mid-century followed by rapid growth to the turn of the new century, and thereafter a decreasing trend to 2022. These observations are supported by piecewise regression analyses that identify three breakpoints (1922, 1975, 2002), with the most recent subperiod 2002–2022 characterized by a significant decline in number of events.”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17477891.2023.2239807?scroll=top&needAccess=true
The same World Economic Forum that fly into Davos on their private jets to dine on the finest European hookers while lecturing us about climate change and advocating for insect-based protein for the rest of us…
Eff all of these people…