One California oil town keeps fracking in check — by banning all drilling

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By Heather SmithMar 26, 2014, 7:21 am10 pts
$photo of One California oil town keeps fracking in check — by banning all drilling image$ To the city council, the story sounded a little fishy. It was true that Carson City, Calif., probably still had oil of some kind. Los Angeles County had a well-documented history of being an oily place. As early as the 1850s, there were reports of enterprising folks scooping up the occasional seep of oil that…

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