NEW PRI REPORT FINDS
State Will Fall 21.1 Percent Short of Power Needed to Meet 2045 EV Mandate
California will fall 21.1 percent short of the electricity required to meet the state’s 100 percent electric vehicle mandates, finds a new report from the nonpartisan California free-market think tank, the Pacific Research Institute. Download the study here “California’s green energy mandates will require families and businesses to consume more energy from the electricity grid instead of fossil fuels, making it less likely that we can generate the necessary power,” said Dr. Wayne Winegarden …
Kerry Jackson – Climate Change and Big Oil
Our guest this week is Kerry Jackson, PRI’s senior fellow on California Reform. Kerry has been following Gov. Newsom’s and Attorney General Bonta’s lawsuit on oil companies and its pimplications. He also discusses SB 253, a corporate climate change disclosure bill; the federal and state push for electric busses including school buses, hydrogen cars, and “Climate Week.”
Read about state climate change lawsuit
Newsom-Bonta lawsuit against oil industry good PR strategy, bad for fighting climate change
Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit in San Francisco County Superior Court, suing a number of oil companies as well as the American Petroleum Institute for “creating, contributing to, and/or assisting in the creation of state-wide climate change-related harms in California.” The lawsuit further alleges the “defendants created, contributed to, and/or assisted in the creation of a public nuisance, and harmed or destroyed natural resources,” and have “misled …