Sempra, parent of San Diego Gas & Electric, “contributed more than a quarter of a million dollars to candidates, including half of all sitting California lawmakers, in the first two quarters of 2023,” says a Sacramento Bee report, based on a recent study by the non-profit California Climate Accountability Project.
Toni’s Sempra connection
The biggest donor to California state legislators during the first half of this year was none other than San Diego-based utility giant Sempra Energy. So reports the Sacramento Bee in a September 28 analysis. Sempra, parent of San Diego Gas & Electric, “contributed more than a quarter of a million dollars to candidates, including half of all sitting California lawmakers, in the first two quarters of 2023,” says the Bee report, based on a recent study by the non-profit California Climate Accountability Project. “Climate experts connect Sempra’s campaign spending to a legislative push to support expensive technologies that would help its subsidiaries stay in business and prolong dependence on fossil fuels, particularly hydrogen and carbon capture and storage,” says the Bee. Per the paper’s account, “In the final days of this year’s…
