efforts to scale back SB 54<\/a>, the state\u2019s single-use plastic recycling law, has dismayed environmentalists who have long considered Newsom one of their staunchest allies. <\/p>\n\u201cOur kids deserve a future free of plastic waste and all its dangerous impacts … No more,\u201d Newsom said in 2022, when he signed SB 54. \u201cCalifornia won\u2019t tolerate plastic waste that\u2019s filling our waterways and making it harder to breathe. We\u2019re holding polluters responsible and cutting plastics at the source.\u201d <\/p>\n
Asked about the presence of the plastic water bottle, Daniel Villase\u00f1or, the governor\u2019s deputy director of communications, had this response: <\/p>\n
\u201cAre you really writing a story this baseless or should we highlight this video for your editor?\u201d Villase\u00f1or said via email, attaching a video clip showing this reporter seated near a plastic water bottle at last year\u2019s Los Angeles Times\u2019 Climate Summit. (The bottles were placed near chairs for all the panelists; this particular one was never touched.)<\/p>\n
More than a half-dozen environmentalists and waste advocates asked to comment for this story declined to speak on the record, citing concerns including possible retribution from the governor\u2019s office and appearing to look like scolds as negotiations over implementing SB 54 continue. <\/p>\n
Dianna Cohen, the co-founder and chief executive of Plastic Pollution Coalition, said that while she wouldn\u2019t comment on the governor and his plastic sidekick, she noted that plastic pollution is an \u201curgent global crisis\u201d that requires strong policies and regulations.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndividuals \u2014 especially those in the public eye \u2014 can help shift culture by modeling these solutions. We must all work to embrace the values we want to see and co-create a healthier world,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Newsom dropped a new episode of \u201cThis is Gavin Newsom\u201d with independent journalist Aaron Parnas. In the video, there wasn\u2019t a plastic bottle in sight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnny had Ed. Conan had Andy. And Gov. Gavin Newsom? A single-use plastic water bottle. In most of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[3443,746,3438,3441,3153,2444,3435,3446,3445,3439,3436,3437,3440,159,3444,67,132,68,989,3442],"class_list":{"0":"post-2503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-daniel-villasenor","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-environmentalist","11":"tag-gov-gavin-newsom","12":"tag-governor","13":"tag-los-angeles-times","14":"tag-newsom","15":"tag-other-time","16":"tag-plastic-law","17":"tag-plastic-pollution","18":"tag-plastic-water-bottle","19":"tag-podcast-sidekick","20":"tag-sb","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-single-use-plastic","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-video","27":"tag-waste-advocate"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114721692214908501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}