SACRAMENTO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday proposed a $297 billion budget, prioritizing money to address homelessness and education while cutting some climate spending amid a projected $22.5 billion budget deficit. The proposed budget, which would take effect July 1, is about $9 billion less than the current fiscal...
California Oil and Gas Production Is the Only Way Forward
When President Biden speaks about gas prices these days, he doesn’t specifically mention all of us in the Central Valley, but he makes several important points about what we are seeing on the ground here and throughout California. Biden correctly tells the American people that supply-and-demand economics drive the...
Fresno County’s Drilling Push is Wrong Solution to Energy Woes
No one in the Valley wants to pay more to get to work, to run a business or to be comfortable in their home. But the unanimous resolution by the Fresno County Board of Supervisors to drill for oil and frack for gas here will not help us with the...
Carbon Fees? You Might Be Surprised by Latest List of Supporters
Here’s a climate quiz question: What do these influential people and organizations have in common? Elon Musk, the National Ski Association, the League of Women Voters, Fetzer Winery, Trout Unlimited, the Carnegie Institute of Science, the World Bank, all four living former Federal Reserve chairs including Janet Yellin, the Miami...
Carbon Dioxide Levels Hit 50% Higher Than Preindustrial Time
The annual peak of global heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air has reached another dangerous milestone: 50% higher than when the industrial age began. And the average rate of increase is faster than ever, scientist reported Monday. Carbon Dioxide Levels Up 2 Parts from Previous Year The National Oceanic and...
America’s New Normal: A Degree Hotter Than Two Decades Ago
America’s new normal temperature is a degree hotter than it was just two decades ago. Scientists have long talked about climate change — hotter temperatures, changes in rain and snowfall and more extreme weather — being the “new normal.” Data released Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration put...
Biden: ‘We Can’t Wait Any Longer’ to Address Climate Crisis
WASHINGTON — In the most ambitious U.S. effort to stave off the worst effects of climate change, President Joe Biden issued executive orders Wednesday to cut oil, gas and coal emissions and double energy production from offshore wind turbines. The orders target federal subsidies for oil and other fossil fuels...
Biden Aims for Most Ambitious US Effort on Climate Change Ever
WASHINGTON — In what would be the most ambitious U.S. effort ever to stave off the worst effects of climate change, President Joe Biden is aiming to cut oil, gas and coal emissions and double energy production from offshore wind turbines through executive orders Wednesday. The orders awaiting his signature...
World Leaders Cheer US Return to Climate Fight Under Biden
BERLIN — World leaders breathed an audible sigh of relief that the United States under President Joe Biden is rejoining the global effort to curb climate change, a cause that his predecessor had shunned over the past four years. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron were...
Congress Takes Aim at Climate Change in Massive Relief Bill
WASHINGTON — The huge pandemic relief and spending bill includes billions of dollars to promote clean energy such as wind and solar power while sharply reducing over time the use of potent coolants in air conditioners and refrigerators that are considered a major driver of global warming. The energy and...