San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved legislation Tuesday prohibiting the city "from entering into or extending leases for the extraction of fossil fuel from city-owned land"
CA Oil & Gas Press ClipsThursday, November 17, 2016
TOP STORY The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved legislation Tuesday prohibiting the city "from entering into or extending leases for the extraction of fossil fuel from city-owned land" in an effort to combat climate change. With Tuesday's vote San Francisco becomes a leader of the growing national "Keep It in the Ground" movement, which has been calling for an end to new fossil fuel leasing on public land and waters.(EcoWatch)
California’s senators implore Obama to make sure Trump doesn’t drill Pacific Ocean
The News & Observer | Sean CockerhamCalifornia’s U.S. senators are urging President Obama to permanently make West Coast waters off limits to oil drilling before Donald Trump takes office. “Opening up the coast to more fossil fuel development poses a threat to our oceans and the coastal economies that depend on them… without a permanent withdrawal, we cannot be certain that the coastline would not see new oil and gas development in the future," the senators wrote.
