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Newsom said California has worked for decades to be a leader in environmental policies that reduced smog, cleaned up waterways and created the market that led to an influx of electric cars and green technologies.

"The landowner had livestock in the field and they had to be moved back to allow a clean up to take place," he said.

With his Buzz Lightyear-like square jaw and clean cut appearance, he comes across as the archetypical heroic astronaut.

Anyone who actually listened to what the girl said knows that, on traditional metrics like being right and making sense, she cleaned his clock.

For example, the Legislature recently reformed the California Environmental Quality Act, a well-intentioned 50-year-old law that had been twisted to obstruct construction projects, clean energy development and public transportation.