New laws would limit oil drilling near homes and schools, require more renewable energy
Barely a week after a record heat wave that sent temperatures soaring to 116 degrees in parts of the Bay Area and strained the state’s power grid, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a package of 40 climate bills., which were cheered by environmental groups, require that 90% of the state’s retail electricity sales come from renewable energy and zero-carbon sources like solar, wind, hydro power and nuclear by the end of 2035 — up from the current level of 59%.
“For all the people who are selling stupid on FOX and doubling down on stupid every single night, trying to recreate the 19th century, here we are leapfrogging and moving ahead,” Newsom said. “The deniers and the doubters — all that anger — these guys are spewing every night,” Newsom said. “Think about the state of Texas, the first five months of this year, talk about spewing, 22.9 million tons of coal they spewed in the first five months of this year compared to California, with 18,000 tons. And they are talking to us about keeping our lights on? Three full days they couldn’t keep their lights on last year, with all that coal and gas.
“He’s got kids,” Newsom said of DeSantis. “I’ve got kids. You saw those young girls with backpacks. No older than his children, my children. Being used as political pawns. And now he’s using it to fundraise. To raise money. It’s disgraceful. He’s a disgrace. What these governors are doing is disgraceful and it needs to stop.”
Earlier this week, Newsom also spent $100,000 from his re-election campaign funds to rent billboards in seven states that have moved to ban or severely restrict abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this summer.
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