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California Playbook co-author @POLITICO. Priors: @sfchronicle, @azcentral. Fan of trails and mountains. 🏔🏳️‍🌈 DMs open.
Aug 29, 2022 8 tweets 4 min read
Gov. Gavin Newsom repeatedly claimed last week that California enacted a rule to require new cars be “100% zero-emission by 2035.”

This is false. His administration knows this, but they keep repeating it. Let me explain: 🧵🧵 The rule approved by the Air Resources Board allows automakers to sell 20% plug-in hybrid vehicles in 2035 (other 80% must be true EVs). In other words, 1 in 5 new cars could still have a gasoline tank.

At best, California’s rule will require 80% zero-emission new vehicle sales.
Mar 7, 2019 7 tweets 4 min read
In a hearing yesterday, Arizona Department of Water Resources Director Tom Buschatzke said this paragraph of our story about Pinal County water was inaccurate and that we refused to correct the story. (Thread 1/7)

Story link: azcentral.com/story/news/loc… He’s right -- we didn’t correct it. Because it was true.

▶️The story accurately quoted DWR. Here’s the email where the info came from: (screenshot shows DWR spokesman Doug MacEachern’s response to my question in bold). 2/7