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Cap-and-Trade Showdown: Will Big Oil Have the Last Word?

July 14, 2017

Tags: California, Cap & Trade, Environmental protection, local control, Preemption, state preemption

Capital and Main, Judith Lewis Mernit, July 12, 2017- Sprawling across nearly 3,000 acres of coastal tidelands in Richmond, California, the Chevron oil refinery sends more than 4.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. The 250,000 barrels of crude it turns into usable fuels every …

LENTE: Sandoval County residents deserve a voice

July 12, 2017

Tags: local control, New Mexico, Oil and Gas, Preemption, state preemption

RR Observer, Lente, July 2, 2017- In response to Ryan Cangiolosi’s opinion piece published in the June 4 Observer, I want to set the record straight about why local communities should have a voice when it comes to oil and gas rules and safeguards. What Cangiolosi either misunderstood or mischaracterized …

Oregon Oil Train Bill Moves To Floor, With Key Regulation Removed Again

June 30, 2017

Tags: federal preemption, Oil and Gas, Oregon, Preemption

Oregon Public Broadcasting, Tony Schick, June 28, 2017- For the second time since 2015, the Oregon Legislature has stripped language out of a bill that would have increased the state’s regulation of oil trains. Oregon has the weakest regulations among West Coast states. A year after a Union Pacific oil train derailed and …

Lafayette officials to probe more local control over oil, gas pipelines

June 14, 2017

Tags: Colorado, local control, Oil and Gas

Lafayette News, Anthony Hahn, June 6, 2017- Lafayette City Council members could push for more local control over where and how oil and gas pipelines operate within their borders in the coming months, officials suggested Tuesday night. Following a presentation from Josh Joswick, a community organizer with the Earthworks Oil …

Grassroots activists seek to regain local control over oil and gas drilling

May 18, 2017

Tags: Fracking, local control, Oil and Gas, Preeemption, state preemption, Texas

Star-Telegram, Max B. Baker, May 18, 2017- Sometimes it takes a little plant food to get a grassroots network to grow. Two years ago, after Texas lawmakers passed House Bill 40 limiting local control over oil and gas activity, activists pledged to form what they called the Texas Grassroots Network …

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