Oil spilling into federal waters off California's coast has prompted fresh calls for an end to offshore oil drilling in state and federal waters.
According to federal officials’ preliminary findings, Amplify Energy was warned of the pipeline's potential failure more than three hours before it was shut off.SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California has been a leader in restricting offshore oil drilling since the infamous 1969 Santa Barbara spill that sparked the modern environmental movement, and the latest spill off Huntington Beach is prompting fresh calls for an end to such drilling.
Today, there are 19 oil and gas agreements in California's coastal waters and 1,200 active wells. In federal waters, there are 23 oil and gas production facilities off the state's coast. California remains the nation's seventh-largest oil producing state, and winding down the state's oil production has proved politically difficult. The industry employs more than 150,000 people, and the state makes money from oil and gas leases.
A coalition of unions and environmental groups want Newsom to create a safety net for oil workers as they transition to cleaner jobs. Their California Climate Jobs Plan aims to create 1 million jobs over the next decade, at a cost of tens of billions of state dollars each year. California’s congressional delegation has introduced legislation to permanently ban new oil and gas drilling in federal waters off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington.
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