At a news conference focused on the oil spill, the California governor made a point about the need to shift away from oil industry-based jobs. “It's time once and for all to disabuse ourselves that this has to be part of our future,” Newsom said of drilling. “This is part of our past.”
oil spill together at a news conference Tuesday afternoon at Bolsa Chica State Beach.
Newsom pointed to Friday’s spill, which dumped between 126,000 and 144,000 gallons of crude oil between Catalina Island and Huntington Beach, as a relic of time when California depended on oil industry-based jobs.AdvertisementNewsom was optimistic the total oil dumped outside Huntington Beach was much lower than has been estimated.
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