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California Lawmakers Ask for Offshore Fracking Probe
2013-08-09 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A group of state lawmakers has asked the federal government to investigate hydraulic fracturing off the California coast where new oil leases have been banned since a disastrous oil spill in 1969. Fracking has occurred in the Santa Barbara Channel at least 12 times since the late 1990s, and regulators earlier this year approved a new project, according to a recent report by The Associated Press, which obtained well permits and internal emails through the Freedom of Information Act. The extent of...
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