California s Plastic-Bag Ban Was Only the Beginning – WSJ

Is Gavin Newsom in witness protection? You have to wonder as the once spotlight-hungry California governor has gone quiet in recent weeks, perhaps to avoid drawing attention to the progressive hothouse from which Kamala Harris ascended. If that s the strategy, California Attorney General Rob Bonta didn t get the memo.

Mr. Bonta garnered headlines last week by suing Exxon Mobil in what amounts to a declaration of war on the U.S. plastics and petrochemical industries, along with the tens of thousands of workers they employ in battleground states such as Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

For decades, Exxon Mobil has been deceiving the public to convince us that plastic recycling could solve the plastic waste and pollution crisis when they clearly knew this wasn t possible, Mr. Bonta declared. His lawsuit accuses the company of creating a public nuisance by producing plastics from oil and gas feedstock.

Ms. Harris has walked back her pledge in 2019 to ban plastic straws. But the California lawsuit underscores that progressive elites really do want to banish fossil fuels as well as the plastics and jobs that flow from their production.

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