Public Comment

Dear Governor Newsom, Financing your political ambitions by favors to the oil, nuclear, and agribusiness industries is undermining your support among California voters. 

Your intense push to break the agreement to close the Diablo Canyon nuclear reactor in 2025, instead of full support for clean, safe, just, affordable energy sources, will cause a tragic delay in California’s transition to clean energy (it is outrageous that the toxicity of radioactive nuclear waste was ignored). It will harm Californians for generations to come. 

Your refusal to ban fracking ignores the huge damage to human health caused by methane. And your support for Stuart Resnick and the other agribusiness billionaires in their efforts to grab ever more of California’s limited water supplies demonstrates where your interests lie. If you also reject the need for essential farm labor to organize, given their vulnerability to extreme weather, the new normal of the climate crisis, you will lose any remnants of credibility with California voters.