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Trump administration sues California over law keeping oil wells from homes, schools (www.latimes.com)
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[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do oil companies even want to develop those sites? I was under the impression they don’t really want to build out a lot of new infrastructure for a market moving toward shrinkage..? Is this high quality crude or something?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 days ago

The key thing is that this law substantially limits new wells inside Los Angeles, where oil fields are interspersed with neighborhoods.