Media Coverage
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2022
Study: Redlining tied to more oil, gas wells in urban areas | AP
LA City Council unanimously backs CA bill divesting public pension funds from fossil fuel cos. | Daily Kos
Laurie Egan to lead Coastal Watershed Council | Santa Cruz Sentinel
L.A. needs clean energy. Hydrogen could be the answer — or gas industry greenwashing | LA Times
L.A. Just Banned Oil Drilling. Now Comes the Hard Part. | Curbed
As LA City Council Looks To Phase Out Oil Wells, We Discuss The Oil Economy’s Local History & Impact | AirTalk (KPCC/NPR)
Los Angeles moves to end oil drilling in the city | LA Times
City Council Votes To Ban New Oil And Gas Drilling | CBS Los Angeles
2022 is looking quiet. Too quiet. | Politico
Los Angeles weighs phasing out oil and gas drilling | ABC News
San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace joins National Radioactive Waste Coalition | Lompoc Record
Nuclear weapon states like US must end the hypocrisy | The Hill
2021
Why California can’t fill a major gap in its climate strategy | Grist
Newsletter: Climate change is transforming how Angelenos live, breathe and escape the heat | LA Times
EJ Comm. Wants CARB GHG Plan to Cover Pesticides | RTO Insider
More than 400 toxic sites in California are at risk of flooding from sea level rise | LA Times
Maternal Instinct Protecting Our Children’s Lives—An MSNBC Premiere Documentary | Common Dreams
Here’s What You Missed This Week at LA City Council | Knock LA
High Stakes: The movement for a countywide drilling ban gains momentum | East Bay Express
California issues rule banning new oil wells within 3,200 feet of homes and schools | Sacramento News & Review
California proposes nation’s biggest buffer zone between new oil wells, homes | Desert Sun
California plan to ban community oil drilling far from final | AP
California seeks strict limits on new oil drilling near communities | Reuters
Study: Radioactive elements reached neighborhoods near Santa Susana Field Lab during Woolsey Fire | Los Angeles Daily News
Study finds radioactive contamination migrated off field lab site during Woolsey Fire | Ventura County Star
Radioactive Waste Fell On Some LA-Area Neighborhoods During 2018 Woolsey Fire, New Study Shows | NBC Los Angeles
Meet the people exposing the truth about the Santa Susana Field Laboratory | MSNBC
Nuclear power is too risky to be a climate change solution | LA Times
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approves motions to phase out oil and gas drilling | Red Green and Blue
LA County moves to ban oil and gas drilling | Grist
L.A. County takes first steps to end urban oil drilling | LA Times
California plans to phase out all oil and gas production by 2045 | Grist
Newsom orders end to fracking in California by 2024, work toward phasing out all in-state oil production by 2045 | The Bakersfield Californian
L.A. hasn’t launched new inspections for oil sites years after council backed plan | LA Times
Pipeline Spills Over 1,600 Gallons of Oil Near Los Angeles Communities | EcoWatch
Oil Spill at Inglewood Oil Field in Los Angeles County, California Sends Over 1,600 Gallons Flowing Near Communities, Sierra Club Reports | Sierra Sun Times
How South L.A. Residents Are Shutting Down Big Oil in Their Neighborhoods | KCET
Mary Nichols Was the Early Favorite to Run Biden’s EPA, Before She Became a ‘Casualty’ | Inside Climate News
Bay Area cities have banned gas to fight climate change. But not Los Angeles | LA Times
Environmentalists Demand Gavin Newsom Join Biden’s Halt of Oil and Gas Drilling | Capital & Main
2020
The ‘Revolutionary’ Fight Over California’s Hidden Oil and Gas Wells | Gizmodo
Should California ban natural gas? A climate battle heats up | LA Times
L.A. City Council Committee votes to pursue a citywide phase-out of oil and gas drilling | Red Green and Blue
Los Angeles Moves Closer to Forcing Oil & Gas Drillers Out of City | Courthouse News Service
Reshaping Power: The Key to Tackling Decades of Health Inequities | KCET
Boiling Point: These maps show how air pollution and COVID-19 can be a deadly mix | LA Times
Environmental Justice: Governor vetoes bill to reform California’s top toxics regulator, the DTSC | Red Green and Blue
Children shouldn’t have to live right next to oil wells and fracking; Ventura County Supervisors pass setback rule | Red Green and Blue
An oil well right next to your house? The California Senate says that’s OK. | Grist
In California, you can drill for oil next to a home. Activists hope to change that | LA Times
AB 3279 could gut housing protections for vulnerable groups | The Sacramento Bee
In South L.A., Oil Wells Owned by the Archdiocese Were Making People Sick Long Before the Coronavirus | L.A. Taco
Coronavirus shutdowns are lowering greenhouse gas emissions | LA Times
She fought a South L.A. oil site as a child. Now, this teen activist has a new battle | LA Times
Climate Justice Movement Joins Forces With Entertainment Industry at Fire Drill Fridays to Take on Big Oil in Los Angeles | Common Dreams
An ‘Industrial-Scale Glade Plug-In’ Masks Odors from L.A.’s Urban Oil Fields | OneZero
2019-2014
Los Angeles: Hollywood, palm trees and urban oil fields | Phys.org
Los Angeles, its palm trees, its blue sky … and its oil wells | Agence France-Presse
Officials say some wells can’t be operated at disputed South L.A. oil site | LA Times
L.A. needs to be more proactive on checking oil sites, city controller says | LA Times
That ‘new shower curtain smell’? It’s toxic, study says | LA Times
This Los Angeles Teen Fights Back in Bid to Breathe Easy | OZY
Elon Musk Will Not Help Lead a Climate Leap | The Nation
South LA rally, march mark 25 years since LA Riots rocked the nation | East Bay Times
15,000 March for Science in San Diego in Plea to Policy-Makers | Times of San Diego
Hidden Figures Screenwriter Will Speak at L.A. March for Science | Los Angeles Magazine
California Delays BPA Warning So Low-Income People Won’t Be Scared of Canned Food | AP
Tests find acceptable lead levels in Jordan Downs soil, regulators say | LA Times
South L.A. Residents Face Staggering Environmental Health and Justice Problems | KCET
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