Today’s Solutions: October 20, 2026

In his State of the State address, California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. came out heavily against the country’s newly-elected President, Donald Trump, specifically as regards to the role California can play in combating the new President’s policies on immigration, health care, and renewable energy & climate change. As we reported yesterday, California had already come out ahead of President Trump’s expected policy changes to enact new oil refinery emissions cuts that would decrease emissions

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