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As we approach the Global Climate Action Summit, hosted by Governor Brown later this year, the governor himself has an opportunity to show true leadership and announce new steps to limit fossil fuel extraction across the state. After all, the case for a managed phase out of fossil fuel production in California has now been clearly laid out by his own team.
All is not lost for the climate test. A climate test could be applied at all levels of government, including at the state level. One state where such a policy appears ripe for formulation is California.
It is increasingly being seen as America’s worst environmental disaster since BP's Deepwater Horizon blowout in 2010 and has led to thousands of people being evicted from their homes.
When Californian Governor Jerry Brown announced wide ranging water restrictions for California last week, the news went global.
It has often been called the heart of public relations: but the third party technique is simple – it is putting your words in someone else’s mouth.
On average, Senators voting against the moratorium have received nearly 3 times as much in Big Oil contributions than those voting for it.
The American authorities have “slashed” the amount of recoverable oil from the vast California Monterey shale deposits by a whopping 96 per cent.
Last week the Chief Executive of Occidental Petroleum, a mega-fracker, told analysts and investors if “towns don’t want us there, we won’t be there.” What he failed to mention is that they’ve got the Governor in their pockets doing the dirty work for them.
They came in their thousands from across the Sunshine State. On Saturday, the largest anti-fracking rally and protest in California's history took place in the state capital of Sacramento.
