California passed a milestone law to stop neighborhood drilling. Now Big Oil has launched its counterattack.

Grist
By Blanca BegertDec 20, 2022, 11:15 am165 pts
Environmental justice communities and advocates across California celebrated a major victory in August when state legislators passed a bill to ban new oil wells and phase out old ones within 3,200 feet of sensitive sites like homes, schools, and hospitals. It was a win decades in the making. Activists had spent…

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