Opinion | ‘Climate Action’ Has California’s Energy Economy on Its Knees
Kern County, in California’s Central Valley, is being destroyed by a perfect storm of laws, regulations and lawsuits designed to eliminate oil and farming. Those industries have sustained Kern’s economy—and California and the nation’s—for over a century. But abetted by bureaucrats and opportunistic litigators, state officials have denied oil drillers and farmers the permits they need to operate, hit them with fines and crippling regulations, cut off their water, and sued them into oblivion.
Oil-and-farm rich Kern County may be ground zero, but this storm is destroying the entire state. Every essential foundation of a healthy, affordable economy is under attack. But rather than acknowledge this storm, California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom is doing everything in his power to make it worse.
Immediately after Nov. 5, Mr. Newsom called a special session of the state legislature to “protect California values in the face of an incoming Trump administration.” He intends to allocate as much as $100 million to the state’s attorney general to wage lawfare against the federal government. One of Mr. Newsom’s top priorities is “climate action.”
In pursuit of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2045, the Newsom administration has given billions in subsidies to the “renewables” industry, at the same time it has relentlessly attacked producers of conventional energy.
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