Gov. Gavin Newsom directed state agencies today to stop issuing new fracking permits by 2024 and analyze pathways to phase out oil extraction in California by 2045…
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California’s governor has moved to ban new fracking permits by 2024 and halt all oil extraction by 2045. California, the most populous US state, produces the third largest amount of oil in the country. It would be the first state to end all extraction…
Gov. Gavin Newsom took unprecedented action against California’s oil industry Friday with a pair of orders aimed at banning the controversial oilfield technique known as fracking by 2024, then ending in-state petroleum production altogether by 2045 to help address climate change…
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Friday through the Department of Conservation’s Geologic Energy Management Division that he intends to end the issuance of new permits for fracking by January 2024…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is planning to announce a ban on new hydraulic fracturing permits, according to multiple sources. The announcement could happen Thursday or Friday, the sources said…
Environmental-justice advocates, regrouping after a big defeat last week in the state Legislature, strategized a path forward Wednesday in their campaign for a “just transition” away from oil production in Kern County…
The California Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced the release of two independent studies that identify strategies to support the state’s goal to dramatically reduce transportation fossil fuel demand and supply by 2045…
When Bakersfield-based oil company E&B Natural Resources sought to put wells in Hermosa Beach that would dig through the ocean floor sideways in 2013, the company’s president said he wanted the community’s trust…
California stands to regain its Clean Air Act authority to regulate greenhouse gases from cars and light trucks under a new rule proposed Thursday by the U. S. Department of Transportation…
Thousands of wells that bring water to San Joaquin Valley homes are at risk of drying up this summer, leaving families without running water for drinking, cleaning and bathing…