California state senators introduced a bill Wednesday that would ban fracking and other controversial oil and gas extraction techniques in the state by 2027…
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State Sen. Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) has introduced a bill to prohibit land uses that may significantly worsen local environmental quality or adversely impact health outcomes from being located or expanded within disadvantaged communities…
Two Democratic state senators in California on Wednesday introduced legislation to ban various well stimulation technologies, including hydraulic fracturing (fracking), along with establishing a 2,500-foot setback for wells from the population…
A pair of California state senators on Wednesday introduced legislation that would prohibit all fracking and “other destructive oil extraction methods” in the Golden State by 2027, a move they said is critical to protect both the environment and public health…
Two Democrats in the California Senate have teamed up to introduce a bill Tuesday that would ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the state as early as 2023. “We’ve been discussing these issues for years and years and now is the time to get it passed,” state Senator Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, said during a remote press conference Tuesday morning…
Senators Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and Monique Limón (D-Santa Barbara) have announced a new bill to ban fracking in California. S.B. 467 also takes up an unfinished argument from last year, calling for a 2500-foot buffer between existing, active oil wells and homes, schools, and health care facilities…
A California lawmaker has introduced a measure that would ban fracking in the nation’s most populated state by 2027. The legislation was revealed Wednesday, five months after Gov. Gavin Newsom called on the Legislature to ban fracking by 2024…
Senator Leyva Introduces Legislation to Protect California Communities and Residents from Pollutants
Continuing her advocacy and work to expand environmental justice protections for communities across California, Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) today introduced SB 499 to prohibit land uses that may significantly worsen local environmental quality or adversely impact health outcomes from being located or expanded within disadvantaged communities…
Kern’s Planning Commission voted 4-0 Friday, with one abstention, to recommend the county Board of Supervisors re-establish a streamlined oil-and-gas permitting system opposed by environmentalists around the state…
Emily Rooney, president of the Agricultural Council of California, is a member of the advisory group for California’s Safe and Affordable Funding for Equity and Resilience (SAFER) drinking water program. She spoke with Agri-Pulse about an unexpected coalition that helped bring about the 2019 law and why the issue is important to agriculture…