California lawmakers on Thursday denounced the Trump administration’s proposal to open up six offshore lease sales in federal waters off the California coast, with Gov. Gavin Newsom calling the proposal “idiotic” and “reckless,” asserting it will not gain any traction in the state.

The development follows reports earlier this month of a leaked draft of the plan, when Newsom — speaking from the U.N. climate summit in Brazil — reiterated his opposition, calling the proposal “dead on arrival” and referring to President Donald Trump as “the polluted heart of the climate crisis.”

“This reckless attempt to sell out our coastline to his Big Oil donors is dead in the water,” Newsom said in a statement released shortly after the announcement on the plan was dropped.

“Californians remember the en

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