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Oil Industry Moves to Overturn Historic California Drilling Protection Law

The industry’s ballot push to roll back newly enacted safety zones would delay implementation for nearly two years, until voters decide the law’s fate in 2024.

By Liza Gross

An active oil drilling rig is located in a housing community next to homes on Sept. 21, 2022 in Signal Hill, California. Credit: Allison Dinner/Getty Images
A large fracking operation becomes a new part of the horizon with Mount Meeker and Longs Peak looming in the background on December 28, 2017 in Loveland, Colorado. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Biden Promised to Stop Oil Drilling on Public Lands. Is His Failure to Do So a Betrayal or a Smart Political Move?

By Marianne Lavelle

National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Credit: National Park Service

Trump Plan Would Open Huge Area of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve to Drilling

By Sabrina Shankman

Shell's Kulluk mobile oil drilling rig is towed by tugs off the coast Alaska in

Committee to Make Offshore Oil Drilling Safer May Disband

By Jason Plautz

Greenpeace activists on the oil-drilling platform Leiv Eiriksson

Activists Scale Oil Rig to Protest Arctic Drilling

John Vidal, Guardian

Old oil rig

Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Tainting U.S. Drinking Water

By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica

Criticism of Secret Oil Dispersant in Gulf Grows Louder in U.S.

By Stacy Feldman

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