Blog: Governor Newsom asks legislature to deliver 3,200 ft. setbacks on new and existing wells
Environmental justice groups today applauded California Governor Gavin Newsom’s action on health and safety buffer zones for oil and gas wells while at the same time warning that the Governor’s overreliance on carbon capture will lock in fossil fuel infrastructure. Governor Newsom has asked the state legislature to end neighborhood oil drilling as part of a climate package he’s aiming to pass before the end of the year’s legislative session on August 31, according to a press statement from VISION (Voices in Solidarity Against Oil in Neighborhoods), a coalition of climate and environmental justice groups.