The writer, a Los Angeles freelancer and former Detroit News business reporter, writes a blog, Starkman Approved .

By Eric Starkman

CEO Mary Barra and Gov. Gavin Newsom

GM CEO Mary Barra insists electric vehicles are the automaker’s “north star.” California Gov. Gavin Newsom says Barra talks out of both sides of her mouth and is a phony baloney when it comes to clean energy commitments.

As a Californian who knows Newsom himself is often full of BS, I’ll concede: this is one of those instances where he actually knows what he’s talking about.

“Mary Barra sold us out, eliminating Ronald Reagan’s work, eliminating the progress we made under the California Air Resources Board in 1967, where we began regulating tailpipe emissions,” Newsom charged. “The Republicans rolled tha

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