California prepares for Joe Biden presidency, state expects change in environmental policies

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden smiles as he holds a campaign rally at Los Angeles Trade Technical College in Los Angeles Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. AP photo by Damian Dovarganes. As Joe Biden prepares to enter the White House, California is planning for a transition of its own: From the state of resistance to a state of acceptance.

For four years, California has led the charge against Trump’s policies, including filing more than 100 legal actions against the administration, mostly over environmental issues. And the state has become a haven of sorts for former Obama-era White House officials who landed government jobs in California regulating the world’s fifth-largest economy while Republicans ruled Washington.

All of that will change come January, when a Biden administration — with California-born Kamala Harris as the vice president — takes over and likely fills key government jobs with a host of California connections. “It goes from headwinds to tail winds, that’s pretty obvious,” Newsom said Monday.

Newsom said he is already discussing how it would resolve its lawsuits against the federal government once the Biden administration takes over. But perhaps the biggest impact would be on California’s environmental policies. Last year, […]

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