Standing on a Los Angeles soccer field with oil wells pumping ... the bills signed today will clean up dirty idle wells and affirm the right of local governments to regulate oil and gas drilling ...

Oil was discovered in Los Angeles in the 1890s, and extraction played an integral ... Krekorian said some of the idle wells may shut down sooner, as may some of the wells that are becoming less ...

California currently has more than 40,000 wells that sit idle, but existing laws do little to force operators to plug these dangerous wells. The bill is sponsored by the Center for Biological ...

Today’s agreement, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, memorializes the expiration of the ... The groups will work with the Bureau to address nearly two dozen additional idle wells inside the ...