Old wells also pose a risk of blowouts — and, ... The pair, a legacy of the 1,100 wells once part of the Los Angeles City Oil Field, cost the state $1.2 million to seal.

The effort to shut down the city’s wells is part of a region-wide movement to push oil and gas drilling out of Los Angeles County. In 2021, similar measures were passed to ban drilling in Culver ...

Los Angeles city’s new move not only bans new oil wells but also directs all oil companies operating in the city to plan to shut down in a maximum of 20 years.

Los Angeles was once a booming oil town. Many of its oilfields are now played out but it still has several productive ones. According to the city controller's office there were 780 active and 287 ...

There are over 5,000 oil and gas wells in Los Angeles -- some of them idle -- and 26 oil and gas fields, according to the city's planning department.

Oil and gas wells in Los Angeles. Currently, there are over 20,000 active, low-producing, or orphan wells in greater Los Angeles, endangering the health of residents.

Los Angeles County has blocked new oil and gas drilling. Los Angeles County has blocked new oil and gas drilling and will phase out of existing operations, expanding on a city-wide ban that was ...

Los Angeles County has blocked new oil and gas drilling and will phase out of existing operations, expanding on a city-wide ban that was imposed last month. Skip to content ...

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Friday to ban new oil and gas wells in the city and eventually close existing ones, part of an oil phaseout trend in California.

Last month, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to ban new oil and gas drilling and agreed to phase out existing wells over the next 20 years. The ban of the city is already being ...

Near downtown Los Angeles, a developer is building dozens of apartments in Echo Park on property that contains deserted oil wells. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Statewide, 2,425 oil and gas ...

The push to ban drilling in the City of Los Angeles is part of a region-wide effort to shut down oil and gas extraction throughout the county of Los Angeles, with similar measures covering Culver ...