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 TAGS: Gov. Newsom, Oil Drilling in California Recent News As Trump Sets Largest Oil & Gas Lease Sale in Almost 20 Years, 75 Big Oil spends $17.1 million lobbying against climate policy in first Trump Administration Scoffs at Federal and California Law and Public