Experts are pushing back on California Gov. Gavin Newsom after he pledged that any plan from President Trump to drill offshore in the state is "dead on arrival."

In California, opposition to offshore drilling isn’t limited to environmentally focused voters. California banned new offshore drilling in state waters in 1994, under Republican Gov. Pete Wilson. California’s next Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, took a similar position.

The Justice Department is joining California Republicans in a lawsuit that argues California’s Prop 50 congressional maps are an illegal gerrymander because they’re based on race.

The crucial question is whether companies will be willing to move forward on making significant investments in building offshore facilities.

Decades after that disaster, California’s legislature passed a law barring any new oil and gas leases in state waters. Former President Joe Biden also sought to restrict new drilling in federal waters off the Pacific coast at the end of his term.

Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted the president’s plan to allow offshore oil drilling off California’s coast for the first time in decades.

California has now reached 16,942 megawatts of available battery storage — about one-third of the estimated capacity needed to reach the state's goal of 100% clean energy by 2045.

Republican California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton weighs in on the White House mulling an offshore drilling proposal off California's coast and discusses his plan for $3 gas in the state on 'The Bottom Line.