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Oil drilling permits have slowed to a trickle in California lately, even as approvals for well repair jobs are up significantly from a year earlier, according to second-quarter data that
Local government should be doing more, environmental justice advocates said at this week’s Board of Supervisors meeting, to help address leaky oil wells in Arvin, Lamont and Weedpatch.