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The Newsom administration announces it will go through the state Energy Commission instead of the Legislature for a penalty on windfall profits of oil refiners.
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The fast food and oil industries are only the latest to seek a referendum to stop, or at least delay, a law passed by the state Legislature. The return on investment can be huge — so much money that some are calling for changing the referendum rules in California.
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The state could become the first to fine big oil companies for making too much money, a reaction to the industry's supersized profits following a summer of record-high gas prices.
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The state and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management agreed to put a moratorium on any sales of oil and gas leases on federal land around Bakersfield until the appropriate environmental reviews are completed.
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The California Air Resources Board monitors greenhouse gas emissions to meet ever-increasing climate goals. But the agency said that leaks from idle wells are not currently included in their inventory of the state's total emissions.
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The report was commissioned after legislators and the public learned the water that surfaces during oil and gas production had been provided to some Kern County growers for years.
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The Kern County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a controversial ordinance Monday evening allowing the addition of more than 40,000 oil and gas…
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Lawyers sent a letter last week to the Kern County Board of Supervisors complaining that information presented at a recent planning commission meeting…
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After hearing more than 100 public comments, the Kern County Planning Commission voted Friday to pass the recommendation for a proposed oil and gas…
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Juan Flores remembers sitting in a meeting in July when his phone started blowing up. He’s a community organizer with the non-profit advocacy group Center…