Trump Administration Rolls Out New Plan To Unleash California Energy
April 26, 2019
Yesterday, the Trump administrated rolled out a new plan to unleash California’s energy economy by opening over one million acres of land to energy exploration. As the Los Angeles Times explains, “The action would end a five-year moratorium on leasing federal land in California to oil and gas developers. That pause came after a federal judge ordered the Obama administration to halt similar leasing efforts until it could better evaluate the environmental risks of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking.” That’s right, this plan was first approved under the Obama administration. Here’s what we now know: fracking is both safe and economically…