Citing the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, California officials denied 21 fracking permits this week. What they didn’t mention was that the permit denials are more likely to benefit foreign oil producers than the environment. State Oil and Gas Supervisor Uduak-Joe Ntuk cited climate...
Fracking opponents suffered a defeat in California, where SB467, legislation that would have severely restricted energy production in the state, failed to pass a committee vote. Moderate Democrats on the California Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee blocked the bill from advancing, a sign that...
This week voters in California took to the polls and anti-fracking candidates didn’t do so well. Ahead of the primaries Senator Bernie Sanders held a press conference in Monterey County in which he repeated debunked activist talking points and vowed he would seek a complete...
Ahead of next week’s primary in California – the nation’s third largest oil producing state – Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders shifted his focus to attacking energy production, holding a press conference in Monterey County (where there is no fracking) to reiterate his support for a...
Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is used throughout the United States to produce oil and gas from “tight” shale formations bringing along with it good-paying jobs, economic growth, and reduced CO2 emissions. California is nation’s third largest energy producing state and fracking here is a bit different than elsewhere in the...
There is a long tradition of Hollywood actors using “celebrity science” to advance a political agenda. Nowhere is that tradition more apparent than in the home of Hollywood itself — California — were celebrities are involved in a misguided effort to ban hydraulic fracturing. If...
Californians who value clean air and clean water — as well as a robust economy — got good news this week. After a process mandated by SB 4, the strictest regulations on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the country, the independent California Council on Science and...
For many decades, California has been a pioneer in implementing strict regulations to reduce emissions and protect the environment. Today, we continue that tradition as the rules required by SB 4 – California’s landmark law strictly regulating hydraulic fracturing and other well-stimulation techniques – become permanent....
Several studies have been released recently that add to our understanding of the potential for oil and gas injection wells to cause earthquakes strong enough to be felt, a phenomenon known as “induced seismicity.” These studies have examined seismic activity in areas like Oklahoma, Texas,...
An activist group called “Environment California” (EC) recently released a cartoon video that purports to explain the “science” behind the routine and well-understood technology of hydraulic fracturing. Instead, the video spreads misinformation from its opening sentence to its closing credits. For anyone who is familiar...