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The shrinking number of oil refineries in California is another reason there’s a growing gap between California and the rest of the country’s gas prices. Today, there are only 11 major ...
A recent study shows investing in modernization instead of pipelines could save Californians over $20 billion by 2045 (about $32,000 per gas customer). As heat waves become more severe and ...
The remaining 15% of California's natural gas is produced in-state, both off-shore and onshore. Natural-gas-fired electricity generator plants have been the dominant use of natural gas California for many years. Natural gas is a dispatchable resource that fills in the gaps from other electrical resources when peak power loads are needed.
There is a permanent moratorium on new offshore oil and gas leasing in California waters and a deferral of leasing in Federal waters. [citation needed] California ranks third in the United States in petroleum refining capacity, behind Texas and Louisiana, and accounts for about 11% of total U.S. capacity, as of 2012. [84]
The agency said earlier this month that fuel producers in California typically pass 8 to 10 cents per gallon of costs to consumers as a result of the program. But estimates for how the board’s ...
The Rio Vista Gas Field is a large natural gas field in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in northern California, adjacent to Rio Vista, California. Discovered in 1936, and in continuous operation since, it has produced over 3.6 trillion cubic feet (100 km 3 ) of gas in its lifetime, and retains an estimated reserve of approximately 330 ...
California’s gas prices already average $4.00 per gallon, about a dollar higher than the national average. High gas prices hit the state’s low- and middle-income households, and rural ...
A view of Los Angeles covered in smog. Pollution in California relates to the degree of pollution in the air, water, and land of the U.S. state of California.Pollution is defined as the addition of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or any form of energy (such as heat, sound, or radioactivity) to the environment at a faster rate than it can be dispersed, diluted, decomposed, recycled, or ...