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Gov. Gavin Newsom Accuses Trump of ‘Open Corruption’ at Climate Meeting [1]
['Max Bearak', 'More About Max Bearak']
Date: 2024-05-16
Burnishing his climate credentials at a conference hosted by Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday, California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, criticized former President Donald J. Trump for reportedly meeting with fossil fuel executives and asking them for $1 billion in contributions to his election campaign.
“Open corruption,” Mr. Newsom said to a gathering of religious officials, scientists and politicians from around the world. “A billion dollars to pollute our states, to pollute our country, and to pollute this planet and to roll back progress in the open.”
Mr. Newsom hasn’t been shy about his stance on climate change. He often attends climate conferences and as governor he has signed a raft of laws and regulations to speed the nation’s most populous state away from fossil fuels, including a ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035 and a mandate to stop adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by 2045. He wants to end oil drilling in his state, a major oil producer, also by 2045.
Under his watch, the state of California has also sued several of the world’s biggest oil companies, claiming that their actions have caused tens of billions of dollars in damage and that they deceived the public by downplaying the risks posed by fossil fuels.
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