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California overhauls carbon market — critics say it's a giveaway to oil calmatters.org/environment/...
California just handed oil companies billions in free pollution permits
California air regulators approved a sweeping carbon market overhaul Friday, giving oil refineries billions in free permits over environmentalists' objections.
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California bill moves to make cheaper alternative fuel available to more drivers calmatters.org/environment/...
California has a new idea for $6 gas: Let more cars run on ethanol
E85 can cost less than gasoline per gallon. But in California, finding and saving money with the fuel is more complicated.
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$6 gas and refinery fears collide with California’s climate ambitions calmatters.org/environment/...
$6 gas and refinery fears collide with California’s climate ambitions
A new carbon market proposal could send billions in free permits to industry while cutting money for California programs.
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California governor frontrunner Xavier Becerra's playbook: Never say you're sorry calmatters.org/politics/202...
Becerra pulled ahead in California's governor race. His strategy? Never apologize
While other California governor candidates apologize for past mistakes, Democratic frontrunner Xavier Becerra has a different strategy: dodge and dismiss.
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Amazing lobbying job by Phillips 66, persuading Gavin Newsom to redirect hundreds of millions of dollars in road-repair dollars to wildly expensive, supposedly clean jet fuel: calmatters.org/environment/... via @gauchoesque.bsky.social
A jet fuel subsidy could tap funds meant for California roads
A proposed California subsidy for cleaner burning jet fuel could tap road funds and push gas prices higher, with ripple effects for California drivers.
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Tom Steyer is running the most expensive campaign in America. It might win him the California governorship. politi.co/488LOOe via @politico.com
Tom Steyer is running the most expensive campaign in America. It might win him the California governorship.
The Democratic billionaire is moving quickly to take advantage of a wide-open California governor’s race.
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‘We’re in really crazy territory’: Swalwell bombshell could upend the governor’s race sfstandard.com/2026/04/10/r...
‘We’re in really crazy territory’: Swalwell bombshell could upend the governor’s race
A former staffer claims the congressman sexually assaulted her. Which candidates stand to benefit?
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So where are things headed ... Gov. Katie Porter? "Democrats can pull victory from the jaws of defeat by coalescing around Porter." www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joe...
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Candidates for California governor call on Swalwell to drop out after allegations of sexual assault calmatters.org/politics/202...
Fellow Democrats running for California governor call on Swalwell to drop out
The Democratic congressmember came under pressure after the San Francisco Chronicle reported that a former staffer alleged the congressmember sexually assaulted her.
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Ex-staffer says Eric Swalwell, candidate for California governor, sexually assaulted her www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
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On the rebuilding front: "Many will face years of delay rebuilding, if they can rebuild at all. Of the five most destructive California wildfires from 2017 to 2020, which burned nearly 22,500 homes, just 38% had been rebuilt as of spring 2025." www.cawildfirefund.com/sites/wildfi...
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Wildfire-related charges now add approximately $41 per month to the average PG&E residential bill (approximately 19% of the total bill), $27 for SCE (approximately 17%), and $21 for SDG&E (approximately 14%), according to a wildfire report released this week. www.cawildfirefund.com/sites/wildfi...
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Trump energy chief attacks California oil and gas policies in Long Beach calmatters.org/environment/...
Trump's energy chief visited Long Beach with a pointed message for Newsom
A wetlands-for-drilling deal collapsed under a state law. Now it's fuel for a federal fight over California's energy policies.
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California wants to fund green jet fuel — by raiding your road repair budget calmatters.org/environment/...
A jet fuel subsidy could tap funds meant for California roads
A proposed California subsidy for cleaner burning jet fuel could tap road funds and push gas prices higher, with ripple effects for California drivers.
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Deaths in ICE Custody Are Growing. ‘They Let Him Rot in There.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/u...
Deaths in ICE Custody Are Growing. ‘They Let Him Rot in There.’
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Turns out a lot of folks who thought they needed to upgrade their electrical panels to ditch gas appliances — which is not cheap! — may not actually have to: www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele... via @alisontakemura.bsky.social
Many homes already have the power to electrify, study finds
A California power provider shows homes can ditch fossil-fueled appliances without pricey electrical service upgrades after all.
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‘I Thought I Would Be Caged My Whole Life’ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/b...
‘I Thought I Would Be Caged My Whole Life’
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America’s capital of ‘super-commuters’ is in California. Now many are hitting a crisis point www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
America’s capital of ‘super-commuters’ is in California. Now many are hitting a crisis point
Spiking gas prices. Traffic jams. BART’s funding woes. “Super-commuters” in this Northern California hub are struggling.
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"Since his election, and facing a projected budget shortfall of more than $900 million, Lurie has solicited more than $40 million in private donations and helped build a philanthropic outpost of city government... " www.wsj.com/us-news/san-...
San Francisco’s Mayor Funds Turnaround With Help From Old-Money Friends
Democrat Daniel Lurie, a Levi Strauss heir, is tapping his Rolodex to raise private donations to fix homelessness, clean streets, fill vacant storefronts and more.
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"We already knew that Democrat Tom Steyer, a billionaire running for California governor, is rich. But how rich? In 2024, Steyer and his wife, Kat Taylor, reported a total income of $39 million, thanks to the duo’s massive investments in the global stock market." calmatters.org/politics/202...
Tom Steyer made $39 million in 2024. His rivals for governor? Not even close.
The candidates for California governor submitted their tax returns last week. See who earned what – and how much they paid in taxes.
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I agree. This event has been meteorologically astonishing, and its impacts will be felt long after it ends in terms of record low snowpack, sharply increased wildfire risk, and extreme low watershed runoff/streamflow into summer and beyond.
Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 4mo agoAs the first reanalysis data become available, I think I can say with a fairly high degree of confidence that the March 2026 heatwave will go down as the most anomalously extreme heat event ever observed at any time of year in the southwestern U.S.
Tech giants are spending more than ever to shape California politics. See how much. Great piece from @jeremiak.com calmatters.org/politics/202...
Tech giants are spending more than ever to shape California politics. See how much
Tech giants involved in AI and cryptocurrency spent $39 million last year to influence lawmakers and policy. It's the start of what could be a spending blitz in the upcoming election.
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from Dan Faber at Berkeley — "My best guess, for whatever it’s worth, is that the war will have a positive effect on the energy transition, although it could be a small one if the effect on energy markets is short-lived." legal-planet.org/2026/03/30/t...
The War and the Energy Transition - Legal Planet
The Iran war likely won’t move the needle if its economic impact is transitory but will promote the energy transition otherwise.
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California blew a hole in environmental planning law. Now, lawmakers are trying to fix it calmatters.org/environment/...
Lawmakers accidentally blew a hole in the state’s planning law. Now, they’re trying to fix it
California exempted advanced manufacturing from CEQA review by mistake. Now environmental and industry groups are fighting over the fix.
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Feds ramp up scrutiny in yearslong dispute over California airport money calmatters.org/economy/2026...
Feds ramp up scrutiny in yearslong dispute over California airport money
The FAA wants California to prove it’s allocating jet fuel tax revenue to aviation. Hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake.
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Officials considered warning Altadena before Eaton fire, but no alert was sent www.latimes.com/california/s...
Officials considered warning Altadena before Eaton fire, but no alert was sent
Just before the Eaton fire broke out, an L.A. County official urged his team to issue a cellphone alert about increasingly dangerous winds to no avail.
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California asks court to halt Riverside sheriff's recount of 2025 election ballots calmatters.org/politics/202...
California asks court to halt Riverside sheriff's recount of 2025 election ballots
Chad Bianco, a Republican sheriff running for governor, seized 2025 ballots for a voter fraud investigation. California is asking a court to halt the inquiry.
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The most under-covered dynamic in California politics right now is the very real possibility that a Republican could be elected governor — with one of two Republican candidates, or even both, could plausibly advance through the June primary.
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 4mo agoA Dem-sponsored poll of California's governor race shows the two Republicans ahead, at 16% and 14%. Eight Democrats follow: Swalwell, Porter, Steyer are at 10%, & everyone else below that. (Reminder this'll go to a 'top 2' runoff, regardless of party. cadem.org/wp-content/u...)
Why Gas in California Is Almost $6 a Gallon — and Could Go Higher heatmap.news/energy/calif...
Why Gas in California Is Almost $6 a Gallon — and Could Go Higher
War with Iran adds to a long list of factors making California gas hella expensive.
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The Energy Economics of War: energyathaas.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/t...
The Energy Economics of War
Gasoline prices are way up and diesel up even more. Natural gas prices spiking in most of the world, but unchanged in the US. Economics helps explain why. The energy markets courses that our Energy…
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