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    No new California fracking without scientific review, governor says

    by Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times Nov 19, 2019 3 minutes

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In a victory for critics of California's oil drilling industry, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday stopped the approval of new hydraulic fracturing in the state until the permits for those projects can be reviewed by an independent panel of scientists.

    Newsom also imposed a moratorium on new permits for steam-injected oil drilling in California, another extraction method opposed by environmentalists that was linked to a massive petroleum spill in Kern County

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