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Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of climate bills aimed at staving off gas price volatility while expanding California’s commitment to clean energy

The bills will allow for expanded oil drilling in Kern County, the heart of California oil country, and will expand the cap-and-trade climate program through 2045

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a sweeping package of climate and environment bills aimed at reducing the cost of electricity, stabilizing gasoline prices and propping up California’s struggling oil industry.

At a bill signing ceremony at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Newsom told state lawmakers and representatives from labor, business, climate a

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