WASHINGTON COMES FOR THE COAST: Trump's Review of California's Coastal Commission | Kabateck & Karnikian: Off the Record, Ep. 8

California's coastline has weathered earthquakes, wildfires, and erosion. Now the threat is Washington. The Trump administration has launched a formal review of the California Coastal Commission, the agency created by voter-approved Proposition 20 in 1972 to protect more than 840 miles of shoreline. Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian break down what's driving it: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's letter accusing the Commission of environmental extremism, the friction over SpaceX launches at Vandenberg, and federal priorities from offshore oil to desalination and undersea cables. They explain how NOAA's review works under the Coastal Zone Management Act, why the roughly 10% of the Commission's $35 million budget that comes from Washington is the real leverage, and why the whole thing likely ends where California's fights with the administration usually do, in court under the Administrative Procedure Act.

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