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Oil Production and Refining

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2012

    Could Fracking in Los Angeles Cause an Earthquake?

    Conversations about fracking, the controversial technique for natural gas extraction (alternately known as "that thing that turns your tap water flammable") are typically confined to Pennsylvania, where the critically acclaimed documentary Gasland was set, or the state of New York, currently debatin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Measure O, Oil Tax: Election Results

    ​With most votes counted, L.A. voters are narrowly rejecting Measure O -- the oil extraction tax -- by a tally of 50.9% to 49.2%.Voters were asked to impose a $1.44-per-barrel tax on oil production in the city, which would raise $4 million a year.Oil producers argued (speciously) that the tax woul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    Hydraulic 'Fracking' -- New Oil-Drilling Technique -- Could Create Jobs, Poison Tap Water in California

    What's a little contamination in the name of the drill?​The nation was abuzz yesterday with highly unsustainable news of a fresh way to squeeze millions more barrels of oil from the deepest Earthstuffs of America the Beautiful: It's called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" among Big Oil exec ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    December 9, 2010

    No Fracking Way

    The dirty cost of clean energy in GASLAND

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    California Voter Guide for November 2, 2010, Los Angeles Weekly

    Candid shot of a group writing California ballot measures​Confused about the propositions on Tuesday's ballot? Below are links to helpful information: Proposition 19: What Legal Marijuana Would Mean for California (full report) Proposition 19: Why It's Tanking In Polls Proposition 19: Obama A ... More >>

  • News

    October 28, 2010

    Greens Vs. Big Oil and Prop. 23

    To save California's global-warming law, a 23-year-old finds his rage — and 60,000 friends

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2010

    La Nogalera Walnuts: Great For Cooking Cleaning up Oil Spills

    Brooke BurtonCan walnut shells really stop oil leaks and filter polluted water?​ Go to the Hollywood farmers market to sample La Nogalera's excellent walnut oil from the Santa Rita Hills in Santa Barbara County, and you may quickly identify the nutritional benefits for salads and vegetable sid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Gulf Oil Spill Prompts Guv to Drop Offshore Plan

    Dept. of Energy (via TPM)​For the last couple years, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has lobbied to boost state revenues by allowing expanded drilling off Santa Barbara.The Tranquillon Ridge plan accounted for $100 million in the governor's proposed budget.Well, so much for that. In view of the vast an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Fracking Doc GASLAND Hush-Hush Opens in LA

    ​ Gasland, Josh Fox's riveting personal documentary in which the filmmaker travels the country tracking the human cost of "fracking," a controversial method of natural gas drilling (think inexplicable illnesses, regular-joe-raping corporate cover-ups, and tap water with so much gas in it that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    Why Did Obama's Oil-Drilling Plan Spare California?

    ​President Barack Obama's announcement this week that he will open new swaths of the Atlantic coast and eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil drilling in order to reduce United States dependence on foreign oil pointedly left the West Coast out, leaving some to wonder whether he aimed his drill bits at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2009

    State Bureaucrats Consider Oil Drilling Off L.A. Coast

    Marcia Hanscom, the influential, grassroots environmentalist who successfully won the battle to save a major portion of the Ballona Wetlands, has raised a red flag alert to her supporters, writing that bureaucrats at the California State Lands Commission are holding a hearing this morning to possibl ... More >>

  • News

    June 21, 2007

    Man-Made Reefs or Oily Eyesores?

    In a raging debate, some say Mother Nature has warmed to California’s offshore oil rigs

  • News

    June 22, 2006

    Flights of Logic

    Enviros may sue to protect wildlife from oil

  • Film+TV

    August 11, 2005

    Oil On Ice

    Enviros may sue to protect wildlife from oil

  • News

    August 4, 2005

    Condor Has Landed

    The forest service gives the go-ahead to find more oil in Los Padres

  • News

    September 2, 2004

    Loss and Loathing on the Cheney Trail

    The environmental destruction wrought by the vice president’s secret energy plan

  • News

    August 7, 2003

    Driving Mr. Davis

    Idea for new gas tax dropped to save the governor grief during recall campaign

  • News

    August 7, 2003

    The Griles Files

    Inside Bush’s plan for California coast

  • News

    February 14, 2002

    The Back Story

    A reading list

  • News

    February 14, 2002

    Busting Unions

    Progressives can do it, too

  • News

    January 3, 2002

    Top 6 Science Blunders of the Bush Administration

    — so far

  • News

    June 22, 2000

    Troubled Solution

    Calls to halt cleanup at William Mead go unheeded

  • News

    May 11, 2000

    Ignoring the Protesters

    U’wa’s next stop — Democratic Convention

  • News

    February 3, 2000

    Toxic Project

    State calls for health study of residents at contaminated public-housing project

  • News

    February 5, 1998

    Rights Reversal

    Suit to corral UNOCAL in Burma stalls

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