Groups Urge Newsom To Reject Oil Sector Incentives As Fuel ‘Crisis’ Looms

Environmentalists are pressing California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), lawmakers and energy officials to avoid offering oil firms new economic incentives to maintain an adequate supply of transportation fuel amid looming refinery closures and a possible fuel supply “crisis,” even as Newsom and agency leaders are weighing such steps. “Oil lobbyists are using refinery closures, the threat of gas price spikes, and misinformation to pressure California lawmakers for even more subsidies and rollbacks,” argue more than 30 environmental, climate and equity...