{"id":74275,"date":"2025-07-29T12:54:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=74275"},"modified":"2025-07-29T12:54:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:54:49","slug":"governor-newsom-responds-to-latest-trump-sledgehammer-to-clean-air-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=74275","title":{"rendered":"Governor Newsom responds to latest Trump sledgehammer to clean air protections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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What you need to know:<\/strong>\u00a0As the Trump administration continues gutting core climate protections and denying science, Governor Newsom is standing with other governors: \u201cAmericans deserve the truth from their federal government.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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SACRAMENTO \u2013 Governor Gavin Newsom today responded to the latest efforts by the Trump administration to deny decades of scientific research and turn back the clock on life-saving policies that protect public health.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0U.S. EPA announced<\/a>\u00a0they are rolling back decades-old emissions standards for cars and trucks and proposing new rules that reverse the \u201cendangerment finding.\u201d This is the basis for federal actions to curb planet-warming emissions of greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide and methane. They also announced plans to shut\u00a0down a key\u00a0scientific research office.<\/p>\n

As Co-Chair of the\u00a0U.S. Climate Alliance<\/a>, Governor Newsom issued the\u00a0following statement<\/a>\u00a0with Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cAmericans deserve the truth from their federal government about the climate crisis. No amount of burying research or firing scientists will change the facts: Greenhouse gas pollution causes climate change and endangers our health and welfare \u2014 period.<\/p>\n

From devastating floods to extreme heat to catastrophic wildfire, Americans are seeing the deadly impacts of climate change with their own eyes and we won\u2019t be deceived by the Trump administration\u2019s reckless abandonment of science and the law.”<\/h4>\n

\nU.S. Climate Alliance Co-Chairs Governor Gavin Newsom and Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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California is taking action to protect against harmful climate pollutants, including methane. Earlier this year, the state\u00a0launched a satellite project<\/a>\u00a0to detect and reduce dangerous methane leaks.<\/p>\n

California\u2019s climate leadership<\/h2>\n

Pollution is down and the economy is up. Greenhouse gas emissions in California are\u00a0down 20% since 2000<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 even as the state\u2019s GDP increased 78% in that same time period.<\/p>\n

The state also continues to set clean energy records. California was powered by\u00a0two-thirds clean energy in 2023<\/a>, the latest year for which data is available \u2013 the largest economy in the world to achieve this level of clean energy. The state has run on 100% clean electricity for some part of the day\u00a0almost every day this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since the beginning of the Newsom Administration,\u00a0battery storage is up<\/a>\u00a0to over 15,000 megawatts \u2013 a 1,900%+ increase, and\u00a0over 25,000 megawatts of new resources<\/a>\u00a0have been added to the electric grid.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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