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LA moves to ban oil drilling within city limits
(Nathan Solis/Courthouse News) (CN) — The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously ... LA has 704 active oil wells, some of them hidden behind facades of fake office buildings. Others lie in plain ...
Judge’s ruling overturns LA City Council’s phase out and ban on oil drilling
A judge delivered a blow to a Los Angeles City Council ordinance to phase out new oil drilling in L.A., ruling that only the ...
Center for Biological Diversity3y
Los Angeles Court Makes Oil Industry Pay Over $2 Million for Retaliatory Lawsuit
In 2015 the groups sued the city of Los Angeles for rubber-stamping oil projects in communities of color. They reached a settlement in 2016 after the city adopted new requirements for drilling ...
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Oil field owner sues California over law that would end its Los Angeles-area operations
The owner of an oil field in Los Angeles County is suing the state of California over a law that will require it to stop production and plug its wells or face costly fines. Inglewood Oil Field ...
The New York Times21d
To Be From L.A. Is to Know Its Twin Temptations: Beauty and Danger
A Times climate reporter reflects on a city, its mythology and a reckoning with disaster. Letter to Los AngeleS A Times climate ... you notice the oil wells, those nodding donkeys pumping grease ...