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California has long gone head-to-head with big oil, leading many of the efforts to curb climate

damage caused at the hands of the fossil

fuel industry. But faced with the closure of two state refineries, Governor Gavin Newsom

is making what some see as a sharp U-turn, offering some major concessions on oil as his energy

officials lobbied to not only keep the refineries open, but to draft the bill for more drilling in Kern County.

We'll talk about the state's changing relationship with the oil industry, the potential fossil fuel phaseout,

and what's going to happen to gas prices in the meantime.

That's all coming up next after this news.

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I'm Guy Marzarotti in for Alexis Magical.

During Gavin Newsom's time as governor of California, he's had one constant foe, one year-in, year-out op, one rival with whom he seems to relish every single

fight. That's California's oil and gas industry. But that all might be changing as oil

refineries announced closure plans in Los Angeles here in Benicia that make a complex energy

transition for California even more complicated for the governor and fellow

Democrats at the state capital. That's what we're going to be talking about this hour with

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