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After oil corporations pumped $20 million into the effort, the California Independent Petroleum Association (CIPA) announced on Dec. 12 that it has collected enough signatures to qualify a petition to undo Senate Bill (SB) 1137, a bill banning new oil drilling within 3,200 feet of sensitive sites like homes,
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Flush with billions of dollars in record windfall profits, the oil and gas companies in California have been spending big money lately in an attempt to influence the California Legislature and voters and continue the systemic regulatory capture that has fouled California government for decades. The oil and gas industry
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SACRAMENTO – On Nov. 30, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a proclamation to convene a special session of the California Legislature to pass a price gouging penalty on oil companies that he said “ keep money in Californians’ pockets.” The special session is scheduled to begin Monday, December 5 at the State Capitol
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Los Angeles, CA—Just 3 days after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Friday, September 16, in Vallejo mandating health and safety setbacks of 3200 feet between oil wells and vulnerable communities in California, the powerful oil industry launched an initiative campaign to reverse the new law. Signature
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Sacramento, CA – Sierra Club California today announced its opposition to the oil industry’s signature-gathering effort to repeal Senate Bill 1137, a law banning new and reworked oil and gas wells within 3,200 feet of homes, schools, and hospitals. “SB 1137 was signed by Governor Newsom in September 2022
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As the oil and gas industry pumped nearly $6 million this election season into backing candidates in California legislative races to promote the fossil fuel industry agenda, four of the five big oil refiners in the state posted record profits while Californians are slammed at the pumps with price gouging.
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Los Angeles, CA—Chevron, infamous for causing environmental devastation from the Amazon to California, posted refining profits of $2.5 billion dollars in the third quarter of 2022. That almost doubles their haul from the same quarter the year before. Half of that amount came solely from US refining operations,
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Los Angeles, CA— PBF Energy, California’s third biggest oil refiner, made a whopping $2.26 billion off refining gasoline, tripling its profit in the third quarter after excluding special items, according to a press statement from Consumer Watchdog. “PBF reported making 78 cents per gallon refining crude oil into
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Sacramento, CA — On October 24, over eighty climate and environmental justice groups sent a letter calling on the California Governor and the California Air Resources Board Chair, Liane Randolph, to reject the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) for fossil fuel infrastructure like oil refineries, gas-fired power plants, and
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Los Angeles, CA — oil companies and right-wing think tanks claim that government regulations and the rise oil prices on the market are responsible for the $2.40 more per gallon that Californians are paying for gasoline than the rest of the nation, a just published report exposes the overt price
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Long Beach, CA – As offshore drilling continues off Southern California in a state portrayed as the “nation’s green leader” by the state’s politicians and media, an oil slick was discovered off the coast of Alamitas Beach in Long Beach near the four THUMS islands on Saturday, October 15.
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Sacramento, CA.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on October 6 proposed the listing of the San Francisco Bay-Delta distinct population segment of longfin smelt as an “endangered” species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The population of the once abundant species, a cousin of the endangered Delta smelt,