加利福尼亚州州长加文·纽森将斥资超过2300亿美元建设一条可能永远无法运行的列车，却不允许一列怀俄明州的煤炭抵达纳税人已经出资建设的港口。
California Governor Gavin Newsom will spend more than $230 billion on a train that may never run, yet he won’t let a single trainload of Wyoming coal reach a port taxpayers already funded.
上个月，加州州长签署了一项法案，在奥克兰煤炭出口码头开业前将其扼杀。该项目本将成为西海岸首个此类码头，直接连接怀俄明州矿工与全球寻求负担得起、可靠电力的买家。特朗普总统今夏动用《国防生产法》拨款7500万美元支持该项目，这是一项历史性投资。萨克拉门托的极左派政客以新增一层环境审查作为回应，其撰写目的就是拖延项目，直到投资者放弃。
Last month, the California governor signed a bill to kill a coal export terminal in Oakland before it even opens. The project would be the West Coast’s first terminal, a direct link between Wyoming miners and buyers across the globe who want affordable, reliable power. President Trump backed it this summer with $75 million through the Defense Production Act. Far-left politicians in Sacramento responded to this historical investment with a new layer of environmental review written to stall the project until its investors give up.
加州民主党人在总统宣布后立即提出该法案。法案作者将其推销为阻止煤炭、对抗总统的手段。至少她对自己的意图很诚实。
California Democrats introduced the bill immediately after the president’s announcement. The bill’s author sold it as a way to block coal and defy the president. At least she was honest about her intentions.
奥克兰码头项目花费数年时间，穿越了加州繁重的监管和法律制度的重重关卡。项目通过了环境审查，属于全美最严苛的审查之一。数亿美元投入了该场地，其中包括加州纳税人出资的2.4亿多美元。经过数年的诉讼，开发商全部胜诉，奥克兰市让步并开始推进码头建设。加州政客不喜欢这个结果——于是他们改变了规则。
The Oakland terminal spent years navigating the gauntlet of California’s burdensome regulatory and legal regime. The project passed environmental review, among the most punishing in the country. Hundreds of millions of dollars were invested in the site, including more than $240 million from California taxpayers. After years of litigation, all won by the developers, the City of Oakland conceded and began advancing development of the terminal. California politicians didn’t like the result — so they changed the rules.
无论人们如何看待煤炭，这都应让在加州建设任何事物的人感到警觉。美国和世界需要负担得起、可获得、可靠的能源。如果立法者可以因为不喜欢产品或支持该产品的总统，而追溯作废许可，那么该州的任何批准都不再安全。今天是怀俄明煤炭，明天可能是炼油厂、制造设施，或是触犯萨克拉门托政治优先事项的住房开发项目。
That should alarm anyone who builds anything in California, whatever they think of coal. America and the world need affordable, available, reliable energy. If lawmakers can void a permit retroactively because they dislike the product or the president who supports it, no approval in the state is safe. Today it is Wyoming coal. Tomorrow it could be an oil refinery, a manufacturing facility, or a housing development that runs afoul of Sacramento’s political priorities.
州长当天进一步展示了他的极端优先事项，他否决了另一项法案，该法案旨在加快为加州高铁项目招聘审计师。加州在18年间花费了150亿美元，却未能铺设一英里轨道。
The governor further revealed his extreme priorities that same day when he vetoed another bill to speed up the hiring of auditors for California’s high-speed rail project California spent $15 billion over 18 years. It has failed to lay a single mile of track.
加州曾向选民承诺，到2020年建成一条连接洛杉矶和旧金山的客运线路，耗资330亿美元。目前估计成本在1260亿至2310亿美元之间，预计要到2040年才能完工。
California promised voters a passenger line connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco by 2020 for a cost of $33 billion. It is now estimated to cost between $126 to $231 billion with completion not expected until 2040.
去年，交通部长肖恩·达菲撤销了对加州“子弹头列车”烂尾工程的40亿美元联邦拨款，纽森提起诉讼并败诉。他仍为这种浪费性支出辩护。与此同时，加州民主党人继续在气候极端主义的祭坛上牺牲经济增长、就业岗位和纳税人的钱 CEO称在该州经商“糟透了”，公司搬往得州，加州外流潮持续 怀俄明州提供了截然不同的模式。
When Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy revoked $4 billion in federal grants to California’s bullet train boondoggle last year, Newsom sued and lost. He still defends the wasteful spending. Meanwhile, California Democrats continue to sacrifice economic growth, jobs, and taxpayer dollars at the altar of climate extremism CEO SAYS DOING BUSINESS IN STATE ‘SUCKS’ AS COMPANY HEADS TO TEXAS AMID CALIFORNIA EXODUS Wyoming offers the opposite model.
我们拥有超过600年的煤炭储量。亚洲各国对电力的需求正在快速攀升。无论加州是否批准，这些国家都将燃烧煤炭。唯一的问题是燃烧谁的煤。美国煤炭为国内提供了丰富、负担得起、可靠的电力，并在国外增强了外交杠杆。
We sit atop more than 600 years of coal reserves. Demand for electricity across Asia is climbing fast. Those nations will burn coal whether California approves of it or not. The only question is whose coal. American coal offers the United States an abundance of affordable, reliable power here at home, and enhanced diplomatic leverage abroad.
当加州政客试图将我们的能源生产商排挤出全球市场时，怀俄明州不会坐视不管。怀俄明州已明确表示，我们将动用一切可用工具，包括法律行动，捍卫本州及其产业。怀俄明州的煤炭支撑着全州的家庭和社区，增强美国的能源安全，并有助于满足全球对可靠能源的巨大需求。
Wyoming will not sit quietly while California politicians attempt to shut our energy producers out of global markets. Wyoming has made clear that we will use every tool at our disposal, including legal action, to defend our state and its industries. Wyoming coal supports families and communities across our state, strengthens America’s energy security, and can help meet enormous global demand for reliable energy.
这场斗争关乎的不仅仅是煤炭。加州已经赶走了其建筑商和制造商。现在它想把这种失灵输出到每一个依赖其港口的州。怀俄明州将继续开采。加州可以留着它的火车。
This fight is bigger than coal. California has already driven out its builders and manufacturers. Now it wants to export its dysfunction to every state that relies on its port. Wyoming will keep mining. California can keep its train.
美国参议员辛西娅·拉米斯是来自怀俄明州的共和党人，她担任参议院银行委员会、商务委员会以及环境与公共工程委员会委员。共和党人哈里特·哈格曼是怀俄明州唯一的美国众议院议员。
U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis is a Republican from Wyoming who sits on the Senate Banking, Commerce, and Environment and Public Works committees. Harriet Hageman, a Republican, is the lone member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming.