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2:32 Central Coast Congressman Salud Carbajal is re-introducing legislation to protect federal land on the Central Coast, saying he’s optimistic Congress will be more receptive because of a new Biden administration. Carbajal represents the 24th congressional district covering San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties, and parts of Ventura County. His bill would permanently ban future offshore oil and gas leasing off the California coast. The congressman first introduced H.R. Bill 455, the California Clean Coast Act, in 2017 but it never passed. He’s reintroduced it every year since then and thinks this time, he has a better chance with a new congress. ....
Focus The New York Times – January 27 President Biden on Wednesday signed a series of executive actions, ranging from pausing new federal oil leases to electrifying the government’s vast fleet of vehicles, casting the moves as being about job creation as much as they are about the climate crisis. Biden said his directives would reserve 30 percent of federal land and water for conservation purposes, make climate policy central to national security decisions, and build out a network of electric-car charging stations nationwide. With respect to leases of federal land for oil and gas drilling, Biden’s executive orders direct the Interior Department “to the extent consistent with applicable law” to “pause” leases pending a review of the climate change effects. The orders also call for increasing renewable energy production on those lands and waters, with the goal of doubling offshore wind energy production by 2030. ....
U. S. Representative Salud Carbajal (D-CA) has reintroduced legislation to place a moratorium on new oil and gas drilling and fracking on federal lands on California’s Central Coast. Carbajal’s California ....