Posted on 05/16/2020 5:52:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposed budget cuts include canceling billions of dollars in climate change spending, a blow to environmental advocates who look to the state as a stopgap for the Trump administration's weakening of federal protections.
In January, Newsom proposed a $12 billion “climate budget” that, over the next five years, would offer incentives for companies to convert to electric vehicles, give low-interest loans to businesses to clean up their practices and spend billions on projects preparing for floods, droughts and wildfires.
But Thursday, Newsom proposed eliminating most of the foundation for those programs to balance a budget that will have an estimated $54.3 billion deficit.
The proposed cuts come as the state is battling the Trump administration over water quality and auto emissions, among other environmental issues.
“At a time when the Trump administration is mounting an unprecedented assault on environmental and public health protection, it's absolutely devastating and horrifying,” said Kassie Siegel, director of the Climate Law Institute at the Center for Biological Diversity.
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but yet...
Still plenty to give billions to illegals
And not one insane public union pension touched.
Money for the illegals have to come from somewhere.
stay closed cali....The illegals and union pensions will go away by themselves..No money,No state...Maybe Calif can be bought by another state...
OH NOs
There is enough fat in the CA budget for them to bail themselves out.
It’s hard to be green.
-Kermet
When China is burning bodies in the streets, it is hard to buy into all the ‘climate change’ BS.
Because big centralized government is so important for the environment (Aral Sea after years of Soviet policies).
Cali’s environmental spending threatened?
(Sob)....I’m all broke up about it.
“stay closed cali....The illegals and union pensions will go away by themselves..No money,No state...Maybe Calif can be bought by another state...”
No data that I know re drop in Cali’s sales tax on retail sales and even on each gallon of gas we buy.
When you shelter and cower in place, you are not going out much to buy things and our gas tanks are basically still all most full since the Shelter and Cower orders came down.
So the Cali sales Tax $’s dropped like a rock and still are down. The so called non essential people have zero income and deferred their last 2019 income tax payments.
Cali’s environmental spending threatened?
(Sob)....I’m all broke up about it.
Yeah, the red legged frog and that little fish in the delta have to be dying by the thousands without our millions of $’s to keep them hopping and swimming.
LOL.......
Bummer,dude.
Wait until Gavin gets Prop-13 repealed.
Katie, bar the door.
Oh, look what just became non-essential.
Newsom, along with other stoopid, high tax and spend states think the federal gub mint under The Donald will come to their rescue with tax monies from other states?
Hey Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Calif, Oregon, Washington, eat pooh and reel in your spending, fools.
And they just chased Tesla out, maybe to Texas. What a bunch of idiots. Like AOC chasing Amazon out of NY. Dumb, dumb, dumb
“canceling billions of dollars in climate change spending”
Oh no, we’re all gonna die.....or not.
I don’t understand why Wonder Boy didn’t just immediately cut 30% of the Public Employee Workforce, just like EVERY OTHER BUSINESS in the State????
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