California Governor Gavin Newsom has been touting himself as the Great Green Environmental Anti-Trump.
But it’s an infuriating radioactive lie that demands tangible opposition, especially as it applies to the Diablo Canyon atomic reactors dangerously upwind of Los Angeles, and the California green energy industry, which he has decimated.
Newsom has loudly denounced ABC’s suspension of talk host Jimmy Kimmel. He appeared on Stephen Colbert’s nighttime show in New York as Kimmel was resurfacing in Los Angeles.
Newsom has loudly launched a very high-profile attack wave against Donald Trump. He’s bitterly criticized Trump’s anti-speech assaults on Kimmel and other talk hosts.
But Newsom has also portrayed himself as a green crusader in opposition to Trump’s contempt for climate science.
And here Newsom has hypocritically crossed many lethal lines, especially when it comes to nuclear power and solar energy.
In 2018, as Lieutenant-Governor, Newsom signed on to a hugely popular plan pioneered by then-Governor Jerry Brown to phase out two aging atomic reactors at Diablo Canyon and phase in a rapid statewide transition to renewable energy.