Los Angeles County Votes to End Oil and Gas Drilling

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By Climate NexusSep 16, 2021, 11:37 am257 pts
Los Angeles County supervisors on Wednesday voted to ban drilling in unincorporated areas and to phase out oil and gas drilling. There are currently 1,046 active wells, 637 idle wells, and 2,731 abandoned wells in unincorporated areas of the nation's most populous county. according to a memo to the board dated…

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