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Why an oil industry’s signature-gathering effort is seen as misleading
December 30, 2022 –
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Climate activists in Oakland rally against Chevron, big oil profits
November 28, 2022 –
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In the News | Bakersfield.com
Not just fracking: State slows almost all oil permitting
November 27, 2021 –
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In the News | Newsweek
California Regulators Approve Fewer Fracking Permits Due to Climate Change Concerns
November 24, 2021 –
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In the News | San Francisco Chronicle
Citing climate risks, California is denying fracking permits in droves
November 23, 2021 –
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In the News | Sacramento Bee
At Glasgow United Nations summit, Newsom must become the bold climate leader we hoped for
October 25, 2021 –
On the heels of the recall election, Newsom is primed to boldly reassert California’s leadership on climate.
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In the News | Los Angeles Times
Column: As California continues to burn, politicians must have their feet held to the fire
October 18, 2021 –
Wildfires have always menaced California and that will never stop, especially with climate warming.
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In the News | Los Angeles Times
Dismayed by oil spill, some in Huntington Beach say it’s time to end offshore drilling
October 6, 2021 –
Gov. Gavin Newsom said during a news conference at Bolsa Chica State Beach on Tuesday afternoon that it’s “time once and for all to disabuse ourselves that [oil drilling] has to be part of our future.”
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In the News | Los Angeles Times
Editorial: Huntington Beach shore is covered in oil. This is why the U.S. needs to end coastal drilling
October 3, 2021 –
We already know the U.S. needs to wean itself off oil and gas to help the planet avoid the worst impacts of climate change. This spill illustrates that the threat to the coastal environment isn’t just hypothetical and that we need to move much faster to phase out coastal oil drilling.
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In the News | Los Angeles Times
What caused the massive oil spill off Huntington Beach? Here is what we know
October 3, 2021 –
People began smelling oil off the Orange County coast on Friday afternoon. By Saturday, an oil slick was visible, with boaters along with dolphins and other marine life moving through it. Then overnight Saturday night and Sunday morning, oil begin to wash onto beaches and marshland along the Huntington Beach coast.
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In the News | Los Angeles Times
Huge ecological losses feared as Orange County oil spill hits wetlands, marshes
October 3, 2021 –
“What we’re seeing here is the legacy of our addiction to fossil fuels — this is something that will keep happening unless we switch to clean energy,” said Jacqueline Savitz, chief policy officer for Oceana, a group working to protect the world’s oceans. “No matter how much you clean up a spill, there will always be oil that lingers for years and years.”
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In the News | Los Angeles Times
Newsletter: Why hasn’t California closed Aliso Canyon? Critics say Newsom needs to step up
October 1, 2021 –
Alexandra Nagy, California director of the environmental group Food and Water Watch, says Newsom must step up. “There’s a lot more work that needs to be done, and a lot more leadership that needs to be shown,” she told me.
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In the News | East Bay Times
Recall may be over but climate crisis is not – a youth perspective
September 29, 2021 –
If decisive action isn’t taken, my generation will have to endure the impending consequences of droughts and wildfires.
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In the News | San Francisco Chronicle
California moves on climate change, but rejects aggressive cuts to greenhouse emissions
September 25, 2021 –
If decisive action isn’t taken, my generation will have to endure the impending consequences of droughts and wildfires.
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In the News | Capital & Main
California Oil Industry Continues to Thwart Climate-Related Bills
September 15, 2021 –
Amid drought and wildfire crises, the state’s powerful industries have stymied 12 bills meant to address climate change and industry accountability.
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In the News | Governing
Kern County Will Sue Gavin Newsom for Efforts to Ban Fracking
August 16, 2021 –
While the Western United States and other regions around the world endure intensifying wildfires that climate scientists have long warned of, the California town Greenville garnered global attention on Thursday after the Dixie Fire—now over 322,000 acres—”leveled” much of the tiny community.
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In the News | Common Dreams
‘Like a Blowtorch’: Historic Dixie Fire ‘Catastrophically’ Destroys Greenville, California
August 5, 2021 –
While the Western United States and other regions around the world endure intensifying wildfires that climate scientists have long warned of, the California town Greenville garnered global attention on Thursday after the Dixie Fire—now over 322,000 acres—”leveled” much of the tiny community.
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In the News | San Luis Obispo Tribune
We need bold action. Gov. Newsom should declare a climate state of emergency, writes SLO mayor
August 4, 2021 –
The quality of the air one breathes shouldn’t depend on your zip code. As we gear up to return to post-pandemic life, we need to change the societal divisions COVID-19 highlighted.
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In the News | Inside Climate News
The Carbon Cost of California’s Most Prolific Oil Fields
August 3, 2021 –
On the list of top U.S. states for oil production, California ranks seventh, which is undoubtedly a surprise to many who focus on the state’s green and progressive environmental laws. Thanks to those laws, the California Air Resources Board collects data not only on the amount of oil extracted from every oil field in the state, but on how much energy is required to get each barrel of crude out of the ground.
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In the News | San Francisco Chronicle
Carbon neutral isn’t good enough. California needs to be carbon negative by 2030
July 30, 2021 –
Amid record heat waves, fires, and a federal energy and climate policy landscape that is in some ways even more aggressive than California’s, Gov. Gavin Newsom recently asked state agencies to accelerate their clean energy, environmental justice and climate protection goals.
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In the News | CalMatters
Gavin Newsom report card: What he has done, and what he hasn’t
July 21, 2021 –
Backers of the campaign to fire Gov. Gavin Newsom are hoping that Californians will keep some things in mind when they cast their vote in the Sept. 14 recall election.
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In the News | The Associated Press
California oil regulators delay health, safety rules again
June 23, 2021 –
It’s been a year and a half since California Gov. Gavin Newsom directed oil regulators to consider new health and safety measures to protect people living near oil and gas drilling sites.
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In the News | Los Angeles Times
California regulators again delay health rules to protect people near oil and gas sites
June 22, 2021 –
It’s been a year and a half since California Gov. Gavin Newsom directed oil regulators to consider new health and safety measures to protect people living near oil and gas drilling sites.
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In the News | Desert Sun
California oil regulators delay health, safety rules for people living near drill sites
June 22, 2021 –
It’s been a year and a half since California Gov. Gavin Newsom directed oil regulators to consider new health and safety measures to protect people living near oil and gas drilling sites.
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In the News | CalMatters
Fire risk amid a housing crisis — California’s challenging new reality
June 22, 2021 –
Last Chance Alliance: “Frontline communities cannot afford for this rulemaking process to drag on indefinitely with no concrete actions to address the real and immediate threat of neighborhood drilling.”
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In the News | Los Angeles Times
Newsletter: Why a California oil workers union is getting behind clean energy
June 10, 2021 –
The dominant narrative about labor unions and climate change is that fossil fuel workers are a major roadblock to action. There’s good reason for that reputation.
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In the News | AP News
Governor caught between key Democratic blocs on oil setbacks
May 25, 2021 –
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has set some of the nation’s most ambitious goals for weaning his state off oil, including a ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035 and the end of oil production a decade later.
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In the News | Capital & Main
Engineers Warn Pressure at Los Angeles Oil Well Site Is Building
May 24, 2021 –
More than a year after a shuttered drilling site in the middle of a South L.A. neighborhood was deemed unsafe, it remains a risk for residents.
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In the News | The Bakersfield Californian
Newsom allocates $200 million for oil and gas well remediation
May 17, 2021 –
Environmental activists applauded Gov. Gavin Newsom’s move Friday to earmark $200 million for remediating idle oil and gas wells across California.
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In the News | The New Yorker
Renewable Energy Is Suddenly Startlingly Cheap
April 28, 2021 –
Now the biggest barrier to change is the will of our politicians to take serious climate action.
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In the News | bakersfield.com
State study on phasing out oil production finds Kern will see greatest costs, benefits
April 28, 2021 –
Phasing out California oil and gas production in service of Sacramento’s goal of statewide carbon neutrality by 2045 will require difficult health and economic tradeoffs impacting Kern more than anywhere else in the state, according to a new report intended to help policymakers navigate the transition.
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In the News | POLITICO
Biden takes on Dems’ ‘Mission Impossible’: Revitalizing coal country
April 20, 2021 –
After years of watching their standing erode in energy-producing states, Democrats under President Joe Biden have accepted the challenge that’s vexed them for a decade: convincing fossil fuel workers that they will still be okay even if their current jobs evaporate as the nation embraces a climate change-friendly economy.
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In the News | Los Angeles Times
An Earth Day message for California: Move faster on climate change
April 20, 2021 –
If there’s one thing to understand this Earth Day about California’s role in confronting the climate crisis, it’s this: Just because the state considers itself a global leader doesn’t mean it’s doing nearly enough.
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In the News | CalMatters
Has California given up its climate ambitions?
April 19, 2021 –
The era of California’s big climate ambitions is over, even as California’s megadroughts and wildfires worsen.
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In the News | Los Angeles Times
Editorial: Newsom’s pledge to ban fracking was all talk, no action
April 15, 2021 –
A bill that would have outlawed fracking and dramatically curtailed oil and gas drilling in California died Tuesday, during its very first committee hearing.
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In the News | San Francisco Chronicle
Editorial: If California is America’s climate leader, we’re all in trouble
April 14, 2021 –
As the latest evidence of extended drought and extreme wildfire danger confirms, California’s climate is changing quickly. Its policy on burning planet-warming fuels — not so much.
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In the News | Los Angeles Times
Pipeline leaks more than 1,600 gallons of oil at Inglewood Oil Field
April 8, 2021 –
A pipeline leaked more than 1,600 gallons of oil this week in the Inglewood Oil Field near Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area when a valve was left open.
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In the News | Los Angeles Times
The next Aliso Canyon could happen on L.A.’s Westside
April 7, 2021 –
The sludgy geyser of gas, water and mud startled residents of Marina del Rey.
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In the News | Los Angeles Times
Newsom asked for a fracking ban. He may get more than he bargained for with ambitious plan
April 4, 2021 –
California’s billion-dollar oil industry has so far largely remained on the sidelines during the campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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In the News | Yale E360
The Oil Well Next Door: California’s Silent Health Hazard
March 31, 2021 –
Unlike other oil-producing states, much of the drilling in California takes place in residential neighborhoods, often in Spanish-speaking communities. Despite mounting complaints about pollution from the wells, the state has failed to take action to address this public health problem.
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In the News | San Francisco Chronicle
Proposed natural gas well at edge of Bay Area riles up opposition, at odds with state’s climate goals
March 28, 2021 –
A Brentwood company’s proposal to drill a natural gas well in Suisun Marsh has become the latest flash point in California’s quest to fight climate change and transition away from fossil fuels.
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In the News | The Guardian
‘Kern runs on oil’: as California confronts climate crisis, one county is ready to drill
March 12, 2021 –
Kern county has approved the drilling of thousands of new wells despite opposition from farmers and activists.
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In the News | San Francisco Chronicle
Go-ahead for more oil wells in Kern County frustrates California’s climate ambitions
March 11, 2021 –
A small oil boom may be dawning in the flatlands outside Bakersfield, where many are hoping for a petroleum-led economic bump for the San Joaquin Valley, but where others see California losing its will to break away from fossil fuels.
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In the News | Capital & Main
Gov. Newsom Pledges to Ban Fracking in California – Then Greenlights More of It
October 23, 2020 –
The Newsom administration has established a pattern of approving permits during busy news cycles.
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In the News | KQED
Behind the Battle for the Future of California’s Oil
October 23, 2020 –
Environmentalists, petroleum industry executives, union leaders, and communities near oil drilling sites are all gearing up for what’s expected to be a fierce political battle over efforts to reduce California’s oil production.
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In the News | KQED
Not Just Fracking: Cut All Oil Drilling in California, Says Key Lawmaker
October 22, 2020 –
Not Just Fracking: Cut All Oil Drilling in California, Says Key Lawmaker
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In the News | High Country News
When home is next to an oil refinery.
October 5, 2020 –
All I knew about Wilmington, California, was poverty, so I long hid my connection to it.
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In the News | ProPublica
Oil Companies Are Profiting From Illegal Spills. And California Lets Them.
September 18, 2020 –
California may be a global leader on combating climate change, but state regulators have allowed companies like Chevron to make millions from inland oil spills that can endanger workers and damage the environment.
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In the News | Los Angeles Times
Boiling Point newsletter: Gavin Newsom just promised ‘giant leaps forward’ on climate. Will he follow through?
September 17, 2020 –
Why are climate activists so frustrated with Newsom? Energy reporter Sammy Roth explains.
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In the News | CalMatters
Five solutions to California’s climate crisis Gov. Newsom should implement … right now
September 16, 2020 –
Gov. Newsom recognizes that our current climate targets are inadequate. We have the technology ready to go. Here is a checklist.
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In the News | ABC7
Climate advocates challenge Gov. Newsom’s record on standing up to fossil fuel industry
September 15, 2020 –
Whether in conversation with the president or with the dramatic ruins of a wildfire as his backdrop, Governor Gavin Newsom has been sounding the alarm on climate change, positioning himself on the national stage as a climate leader.
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In the News | Newsweek
Jane Fonda: Trump is a Disaster on Climate Change. But We Can’t Let Gavin Newsom Off the Hook | Opinion
September 15, 2020 –
The California governor has been quick to vow to confront the climate emergency, but has quietly been approving more and more new oil and gas permits.
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In the News | The Washington Post
Power Up: California may be burning. But it’s also still drilling for oil.
September 15, 2020 –
Much of the ire over the fires raging across the Pacific Northwest has thus far been directed at President Trump. But frustrations with California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom are also bubbling over his own climate policies.
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In the News | CalMatters
Lawmakers let oil and gas interests sicken us; Gov. Newsom can put us on the path to recovery
September 14, 2020 –
Many state lawmakers are falling under the thrall of oil and gas industry lobbying dollars, but Gov. Newsom can jumpstart policies that will protect Californians.
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In the News | The Sacramento Bee
Oil Companies Are Profiting From Illegal Spills. And California Lets Them.
September 12, 2020 –
In California this summer, no air conditioning unit, no HEPA filter, no N95 mask worn against the smoke can obscure the growing danger of our state’s toxic relationship with the oil industry.
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In the News | The New Republic
Drilling for Oil While California Burns
September 10, 2020 –
Democrats can’t go green while continuing to green-light fossil fuel production.
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In the News | The Associated Press
Approvals for new oil and gas wells up in California
September 2, 2020 –
Despite pushing back against the Trump administration’s plan to expand oil extraction in California, the state has issued 190% more oil and gas drilling permits in the first six months of 2020 than were approved under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s first six months in office, two advocacy groups said Wednesday.
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