Gavin Newsom: “In 1967, then conservative Governor Ronald Reagan began the…”

“I say that again as a point of pride and a point of consideration as it relates to the issue that brings us here today. It was just 22 years later, In 1967, then conservative Governor Ronald Reagan began the process of leading the modern American environmental movement with the creation of the California Air Resources Board and the first regulations of tailpipe emissions in America. Richard Nixon himself codified that effort in 1970 with the Clean Air Act. California continued to lead by example in the seventies with energy efficiency.” (00:37–00:56)

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