By City News Service
Dec 15, 2020
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Conservation groups sued the Trump administration in Los Angeles federal court today in a bid to reverse its approval of what would be the first new oil well and pipeline in Carrizo Plain National Monument since it was established in 2001.
The legal action also seeks to resolve the fate of other long-dormant wells and associated facilities that the Bureau of Land Management identified for possible removal in 2013.
“It s appalling that it takes a lawsuit to protect our spectacular national monuments, but we ll do whatever s necessary, said Ileene Anderson, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The Trump administration has flouted the law to appease polluting industries, decimate public lands and worsen the climate crisis. Thankfully this disastrous fracking frenzy is almost over.
The Carrizo Plains during a “super bloom” event.
–Conservation groups in California sued the Trump administration on Tuesday to reverse its approval of what would be the first new oil well and pipeline in Carrizo Plain National Monument since it was established in 2001.
The legal action also seeks to resolve the fate of other long-dormant wells and associated facilities that the Bureau of Land Management identified for possible removal in 2013.
“It’s appalling that it takes a lawsuit to protect our spectacular national monuments, but we’ll do whatever’s necessary,” said Ileene Anderson, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The Trump administration has flouted the law to appease polluting industries, decimate public lands and worsen the climate crisis. Thankfully this disastrous fracking frenzy is almost over.”
For Immediate Release, December 15, 2020
Contact:
Ileene Anderson, Center for Biological Diversity, (323) 490-0223, ianderson@biologicaldiversity.org
Lawsuit Filed to Stop New Oil Well, Pipeline in California’s Carrizo Plain National Monument
BAKERSFIELD
, Calif.― Conservation groups today sued the Trump administration to reverse its approval of what would be the first new oil well and pipeline in Carrizo Plain National Monument since it was established in 2001.
The legal action also seeks to resolve the fate of other long-dormant wells and associated facilities that the Bureau of Land Management identified for possible removal in 2013.
“It’s appalling that it takes a lawsuit to protect our spectacular national monuments, but we’ll do whatever’s necessary,” said Ileene Anderson, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The Trump administration has flouted the law to appease polluting industries, decimate public lands
The Carrizo Plain National Monument in California’s Kern County. (Photo via Antandrus / Wikipedia)
(CN) The Trump administration opened bidding for gas and oil drilling leases on California public land Thursday, putting 4,000 acres of resources up for sale in the first auction of its kind in eight years.
President Donald Trump has long planned to open the Golden State’s public lands and federal mineral estates to oil drilling and fracking operations, and his administration hatched designs for over 1.7 million acres of such territory in the Central Valley.
This past August, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management signaled an impending sale when it announced it would open bidding on federal lands in Kern County.
For Immediate Release, December 10, 2020
Contact:
Cesar Aguirre, Central California Environmental Justice Network, (661) 979-2721, cesar.aguirre@ccejn.org
Gabby Brown, Sierra Club, (914) 261-4626 gabby.brown@sierraclub.org
Rebecca August, Los Padres ForestWatch, (805) 770-8692, rebecca@lpfw.org
Trump Administration Auctions Off California Public Lands for Oil, Gas
First Sale in Eight Years Comes Ahead of Biden’s Promised Leasing Ban
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. The Trump administration opened bidding today in the first auction of California federal public lands to oil companies in eight years. Despite community opposition and ongoing legal disputes, the Bureau of Land Management put over 4,000 acres in Kern County up for sale for oil drilling and fracking.