California governor tells top oil regulator to phase out new fracking by 2024
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday directed the state s top oil regulator, the Geologic Energy Management Division, to immediately begin crafting a regulation to halt new hydraulic fracturing permits by 2024.
Newsom also asked the California Air Resources Board to study ways to phase out all oil extraction across the state by no later than 2045.
“The climate crisis is real, and we continue to see the signs every day,” Newsom said in a written news release. “As we move to swiftly decarbonize our transportation sector and create a healthier future for our children, I’ve made it clear I don’t see a role for fracking in that future and similarly, believe that California needs to move beyond oil.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom orders ban on new fracking permits by 2024, wants to stop all oil drilling by 2045 Janet Wilson, Palm Springs Desert Sun
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday directed the state s top oil regulator to immediately begin crafting a regulation to halt new hydraulic fracturing permits by 2024.
In addition to his order to the state s Geologic Energy Management Division, Newsom asked the California Air Resources Board to study ways to phase out all oil extraction across the state by no later than 2045.
“The climate crisis is real, and we continue to see the signs every day,” Newsom said in a news release. “As we move to swiftly decarbonize our transportation sector and create a healthier future for our children, I’ve made it clear I don’t see a role for fracking in that future and similarly, believe that California needs to move beyond oil.”
Palm Springs Desert Sun
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday directed the state s top oil regulator to immediately begin crafting a regulation to halt new hydraulic fracturing permits by 2024.
In addition to his order to the state s Geologic Energy Management Division, Newsom asked the California Air Resources Board to study ways to phase out all oil extraction across the state by no later than 2045.
“The climate crisis is real, and we continue to see the signs every day,” Newsom said in a news release. “As we move to swiftly decarbonize our transportation sector and create a healthier future for our children, I’ve made it clear I don’t see a role for fracking in that future and similarly, believe that California needs to move beyond oil.”
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The following is a contributed article by Nina Robertson and Katherine Ramsey, clean energy attorneys at Earthjustice and the Sierra Club, and Shana Lazerow, legal director at Communities for a Better Environment (representing the California Environmental Justice Alliance).
The past eight months have given us some of the most extreme weather we’ve seen yet in the United States, sending us soaring heat in California and arctic ice storms in Texas. This weather whiplash is yet another sign of a climate changing in frightening ways. Here in California, rolling blackouts left millions without power last summer, prompting some soul-searching in the state about our energy future as the lights went out.
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Environmental groups are challenging the California Public Utilities Commission s (CPUC) decision to authorize emergency capacity procurements for the summer months, saying that it essentially creates a loophole for new investments in fossil fuel resources despite the state s long-term climate goals.
Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists and the California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) last week filed an application asking the commission to reconsider the decision, after the state s utilities outlined plans to contract additional capacity from existing fossil fuel plants. The commission is digging us deeper into a hole by making us more dependent on fossil fuels … and it s doing so on the backs of communities that have been bearing the brunt of the pollution for far too long already, said Nina Robertson, staff attorney with Earthjustice.