Will Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Electric Car Mandate Save the World or Stall on the Freeway?

In Newsweek

From my cover story in the Dec. 16, 2022, issue of Newsweek

No state is more car-crazy than California—and they’ve paid a big price for it, not just in $6-per-gallon gas. The heat waves, droughts and calamitous wildfires that have ravaged the state in recent years are by-products of climate change, to which greenhouse-gas emissions from California tailpipes (and elsewhere) have contributed. To Governor Gavin Newsom and other state political leaders, the fix is clear: Regulate the tailpipe out of existence….Read more

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