CA Gov. Newsom pushes controversial energy package
Continuing his crusade to fortify California’s troubled electricity grid, Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing last-minute legislation that would give the state authority to streamline approvals for new energy projects — and potentially prolong the lives of the state’s last remaining nuclear plant and a group of aging fossil fuel plants in Southern California. Environmentalists denounced a pair of budget trailer bills — AB 205 and SB 122 — that would give the state Department of Water Resources and California Energy Commission broader powers to bring new projects online quickly.