Daily Business Report: July 30, 2026
Gut punch for Gavin Newsom as overwhelming poll shows Californians loathe climate policy
by Daniel Farr | Califiornia Post
Californians are pumping the brakes on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars, with a new statewide poll showing the governor’s marquee climate policy has become a political headache.
The survey by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California found nearly two-thirds of Californians oppose Newsom’s 2035 gas-car mandate.
Among likely voters, 65% said they oppose the plan, while just 34% support it.
by Andrea Sanchez-Villafaña | Voice of San Diego
Mexico and the United States are working together toward a common goal: Reduce the amount of water Mexico takes from the Colorado River.
Environment reporter MacKenzie Elmer has written at length about the dwindling river, fights over who holds more rights to it and efforts to get states to cut back their use.
Last week, she teamed up with Tijuana journalist and Voice of San Diego contributor Vicente Calderón to explain how the United States and Mexico are working together to build a desalination plant and water distribution system in Rosarito.
Changing Terrain Opens August 22 at Oceanside Museum of Art and San Diego History Center
by OMA
Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) and the are thrilled to present Changing Terrain: Regional Artists Interpret Our Landscape, bringing together contemporary artists from Southern California and Baja to explore a region in constant transformation. Inspired by the exhibition presented at OMA and SDHC in 2013, this group exhibition revisits the evolving field of landscape art by Southern California-based artists more than a decade later and includes 11 artists from the original 2013 exhibition.
Work by a distinguished set of invited artists is showcased along with exceptional works identified through a regional open call, highlighting the diversity of artistic voices redefining the landscape genre. Changing Terrain offers fresh perspectives on landscape, revealing how environment, culture, history, and community shape our evolving sense of place. Together, these works capture the beauty, complexity, and resilience of a border region where natural and human histories continually intersect.
See this exhibition simultaneously on view at SDHC, August 22, 2026 through early 2027.
