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California records reveal Maui lawmakers, other pandemic travel
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California lawmakers repeatedly traveled out of state last year on interest group-funded trips despite the coronavirus pandemic, according to financial disclosures.
Legislators headed to Portland, Ore., and Seattle in the fall. Some visited a conference in Arizona days before Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered California into a statewide lockdown. Lawmakers went to Japan before the coronavirus swamped California but when it was already present in China.
Documents also confirm POLITICO’s earlier reporting that more than a dozen lawmakers of both parties flew to Hawaii in November and revealed a previously undisclosed attendee: state Sen. Scott Wilk (R-Santa Clarita), who has since become Senate minority leader.
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New Bill Would Ban Fracking in California by 2027
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Pump jacks and wells are seen in an oil field on the Monterey Shale formation where gas and oil extraction using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is on the verge of a boom on March 23, 2014 near McKittrick, California.
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Despite California’s progress in other areas and claims that it’s a climate leader, the Golden State has a major fracking problem. A bill introduced in the state’s senate this week would change that, though.
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The legislation, introduced by Sens. Scott Wiener and Monique Limón on Wednesday, would completely outlawing fracking statewide by 2027. The two sponsors are also aiming to amend the bill to include a shorter-term policy, which would halt all fracking within 2,500 feet (762 meters) of any homes, schools, healthcare facilities, “long-term care institutions,” including university dormitories and prisons, by Jan. 1, 2022.
Fracking bill will cost Californians jobs, trade group says by Robert Davis, The Center Square | February 19, 2021 08:30 AM Print this article
California Senate Democrats introduced a bill this week that would effectively end fracking in California, a move panned as a job-killer by the country’s oldest oil and gas trade association.
Senate Bill 467 would prohibit issuing new permits or renewal of permits for various oil well drilling techniques, as well as fracking, by 2027. The bill was introduced by Sens. Scott Weiner, D-San Francisco, and Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara.
Western States Petroleum Association President and CEO Catherine Reheis-Boyd described the bill as an example of legislation that s out of touch.