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The resulting oil slick came ashore along 35 miles (56 km) of coastline in Santa Barbara County, and turned public opinion against offshore drilling in California. [11] In response to the oil spill, US Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel removed 53 square miles (140 km 2) of federal tracts near Santa Barbara from oil and gas leasing.
A California law that bans drilling new oil wells near places like homes and schools will take effect after the oil industry on Thursday withdrew a referendum from the November ballot asking ...
A California law that severely restricts oil drilling within close proximity to homes, schools and businesses is set to take effect after an industry group said it would withdraw an expensive ...
The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Monterey County cannot enforce a voter-approved ban on new oil and gas wells, a decision that comes amid an ongoing battle over how the state ...
Federal offshore areas withdrawn from oil and gas leasing. The United States offshore drilling debate is an ongoing debate in the United States about whether, the extent to which, in which areas, and under what conditions, further offshore drilling should be allowed in U.S.-administered waters.
Offshore oil and gas in the United States provides a large portion of the nation’s oil and gas supply. Large oil and gas reservoirs are found under the sea offshore from Louisiana, Texas, California, and Alaska. Environmental concerns have prevented or restricted offshore drilling in some areas, and the issue has been hotly debated at the ...
A California law barring new oil drilling in residential areas and school zones will be put directly to voters next November following a campaign by a state oil trade group. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D ...
Elkind, Sarah S. "Oil in the City: The Fall and Rise of Oil Drilling in Los Angeles," Journal of American History (2012) 99#1 pp 82–90 online Elkind, Sarah S. "Public Oil, Private Oil: The Tidelands Oil Controversy, World War II, and Control of the Environment," in The Way We Really Were: The Golden State in the Second Great War, ed. Roger W ...