"We’re going to launch our own satellite — our own damn satellite to figure out where the pollution is and how we’re going to end it." Jerry BrownThe Golden State will work with San Francisco-based Planet Labs to launch a satellite that would track climate-change-causing pollutants. HARRISON FORD URGES VOTERS TO 'STOP GIVING POWER TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN SCIENCE'The intentionally worded announcement came nearly two years after the governor threatened the Trump administration that California will launch its own satellite. “If Trump turns off the satellites, California will launch its own damn satellite,” Brown said back in 2016, before lamenting the “Governor Moonbeam” nickname the media gave him for previously considering similar plans. Trump’s decision to pull out the Paris climate agreement in June 2017 particularly infuriated the California governor.

Source: Fox News September 15, 2018 15:22 UTC