California Governor Cracks Down On Fracking, Requires Audits And Scientific Review
Gavin Newsom's initiatives follow a massive oil release from a Chevron facility in Kern County suspected of being caused by a high-pressure steam process for releasing oil from underground rock.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom imposed new regulations Tuesday on hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, and curbed steam-injected oil drilling in his state, extractive methods long opposed by environmentalists.
Under the new initiatives:
- New permits for fracking will be subject to independent scientific review by experts at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the
