California Health and Safety Rules for Oil, Gas Drilling Delayed Again
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California oil regulators delay health, safety rules again
California oil regulators have missed another deadline to release new rules aimed at improving health and safety measures for people living near oil and gas drilling sites
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press
June 22, 2021, 11:04 PM
• 4 min read
The Associated Press
FILE - In this May 18, 2021, file photo, apartment buildings rise behind pump jacks operating at the Inglewood Oil Field in Los Angeles. California state oil regulators missed a spring deadline for new regulations designed to protect health and safety near oil and gas drillings sites. Environmental advocates have been pressuring Gov. Gavin Newsom s administration to adopt mandatory distances between wells and sites like schools and homes. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
SACRAMENTO
It’s been a year and a half since California Gov. Gavin Newsom directed oil regulators to consider new health and safety measures to protect people living near oil and gas drilling sites.
But those regulators missed another deadline Monday for releasing the rules, frustrating environmental advocates who say communities can’t wait any longer for change. The California Geologic Energy Management Division, known as CalGEM, hasn’t set a new timeline for the rules, which Newsom originally mandated be out last December. Regulators delayed but said they would come out in the spring.
California is the nation’s seventh-largest oil-producing state and has no statewide rules on how far oil and gas wells must be from where people live, work or go to school. While it has a reputation as a climate leader, other oil-producing states, including Pennsylvania and Colorado, already have such regulations. Even Texas bans wells within 467 feet of a property line.