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The bill, authored by state Sens. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, and Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara, would prohibit new permits for hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, and block companies from renewing existing permits for the controversial technique.
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Legislation that would gradually phase out fracking and other extraction methods that account for most of California s petroleum production faces its first big test in Sacramento on Tuesday.
The nine-member Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee is set to vote on a proposal, Senate Bill 467, that would bar new permits for hydraulic fracturing, cyclic steaming, steam flooding and water flooding.
By MIRANDA GREEN | Special To The Washington Post | Published: April 10, 2021 WASCO, Calif. The long shadows cast here in the San Joaquin Valley come from oil derricks, not palm trees. Two hours inland from the Pacific Ocean, the arid terrain is peppered with petroleum and gas wells. The black gold that lies underground became the region s lifeblood after it was discovered in 1899, and Kern County is still responsible for more than 70% of oil and 80% of natural gas produced in California. We are very proud of our oil industry and our contribution to national security, said Dave Noerr, the mayor of Taft, a city of 9,400 in the southwest foothills. We re just a bunch of hard-working, America-loving good ol boys.
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Small towns get ready to fight big oil over air quality in Central Valley By Ingrid Lobet
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Oil and gas producers could find themselves increasingly on the defensive in California now that two communities near the heart of the state’s largest concentration of oilfields have won inclusion under its community air protection law on Thursday.
Residents of Arvin and unincorporated Lamont, both in rural Kern County, have been organizing for three years with the goal of gaining status under Assembly Bill 617, a law intended to force California’s regional air pollution districts and Air Resources Board to share power with communities and reckon with their priorities. All members of the Board save one voted for the inclusion of Arvin and Lamont after hours of public testimony Thursday night.
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