Agency receives over 8,000 comments opposing plans to expand oil drilling and fracking on public lands.
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BLM Receives Overwhelming Opposition to Proposed Drilling and Fracking Plan
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ForestWatch Joins Nationwide Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration Rollback of Oil Industry Methane Standards
Groups seek to restore pollution controls for drilling and fracking on public lands.
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Trails, Schools, and Conservation Lands to Be Opened for Oil Drilling, Fracking Across Central Coast
Proposal could open up over 200,000 acres of public land and mineral estate along Central Coast to drilling and fracking.
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Trump Administration Begins Process to Reopen 1.6 Million Acres in California to Oil Drilling and Fracking
The public has 30 days to comment on impacts of fracking in central California.
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Appeal Challenges Dangerous Oil Drilling in Santa Paula Canyon
Groups appeal judge’s decision allowing 19 new oil wells along the Santa Paula Canyon Trail.
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Judge Rules in Favor of Oil Drilling in Santa Paula Canyon Case
Ruling will allow 19 new oil wells in the scenic and biologically-important canyon.
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Appeal Challenges Oil Drilling in California’s Carrizo Plain National Monument
This is the first new oil well approved in the national monument since it was established in 2001.
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Ventura County Supervisors Drop Bid to Eliminate Public Challenges to Oil Drilling Projects
Overwhelming public opposition forces Supervisors Foy and Long to retreat.
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Supervisors to Consider Eliminating Public’s Right to Challenge Oil Drilling Projects in Ventura County
Move by Supervisors Foy and Long would hand a free pass to the oil industry.
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Complaint: Ventura County Put Water Supply at Risk of Oilfield Contamination
County officials failed to require pipeline shutdown following flood warnings.
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