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Automaker Group Joins House Republicans In Attempt To Stop California’s 2035 Gas-Powered Car Mandate

April 29, 2025 1:14 pmApril 29, 2025 1:14 pm

The push to federally end California’s 2035 gas-powered car sales ban gained considerable traction this week as Congressional Republicans were joined by major trade groups to repeal an Biden Administration era Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) waiver that approved of California’s...

After Battering Oil/Gas Industry, Gavin Newsom Wants California Oil Refineries to Stay Open

April 26, 2025 2:55 amApril 28, 2025 6:22 am

In 1988, the state of California only imported about 4.5% of all the oil that we consumed in our state. By 2020 we were importing over 70%. California Democrats’ war on the oil and gas industry is working, but not...

Valero Announces it Will Shut Down Benicia Refinery April 2026

April 16, 2025 12:39 pmApril 17, 2025 12:05 pm

California Democrats’ war on the oil and gas industry is working, but not for the people. In another blow to California’s oil and gas industry, and the state’s fuel; supply, Valero Energy Corporation announced Wednesday it will shut down its...

President Trump Targets California’s Overreaching Cap and Trade Program

April 10, 2025 11:35 amApril 10, 2025 12:12 pm

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that targets California’s climate change laws and policies, specifically naming California’s sketchy Cap and Trade program, which ostensibly facilitates greenhouse gas emission reductions. Trump is promoting “all of the above” energy policy,...

Sen. Wiener Bill to hold ‘Big Oil’ Responsible for California’s Natural Disasters Killed

April 10, 2025 7:00 amApril 10, 2025 7:02 am

California Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) introduced a bill in February to hold “Big Oil” responsible for natural disasters in California. You read that right – Senator Wiener is blaming the oil and gas industry for natural disasters, or disasters...

Gavin Newsom is ‘All In’ on Undermining Trump EPA

March 21, 2025 10:45 amMarch 21, 2025 10:45 am

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced earlier this month that the EPA will undertake 31 historic deregulation actions to advance President Trump’s Day One executive orders and Power the Great American Comeback. Administrator Zeldin is taking a DOGE flame-thrower...

Busybody Lawmaker Tells LA Dodgers to End Their Sponsorship Deals with Oil Companies

March 12, 2025 7:18 amMarch 13, 2025 8:29 am

Senate Majority Leader Lena Gonzalez (D-Long Beach) sent the Los Angles Dodgers a letter Tuesday telling them to end their sponsorship deals with oil companies. “As the Senate Majority Leader, representative for California’s 33rd Senate District, and a lifelong Dodgers...