California does not currently restrict how close oil and gas extraction activities can occur in proximity to sensitive receptors such as schools, homes, and hospitals. On November 19, 2019, the California Department of Conservation’s Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM) issued a press release announcing its intent to “establish a transparent set of rules designed to protect residents and communities near oil and gas extraction sites.” CalGEM stated that it planned to “consider a range of protective measures, including prohibiting oil and gas activities within close proximity of homes, schools, hospitals, and parks.”
Our communities are still waiting for them to complete the rulemaking process. This highlights the very urgent need for SB 467. This bill will help end dangerous drilling practices in California, including neighborhood drilling and extraction methods harmful to public health. It will also provide a step to protect oil and gas workers that are experiencing job loss and will continue to due to the fossil fuel industry’s natural decline in California.
Click here to read the full text of SB 467.
Click here to read the fact sheet for SB 467.
Supporters (Updated 3/25/2021)
- Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
- Voices in Solidarity Against Oil in Neighborhoods (VISION)
- FracTracker Alliance
- Climate Health Now
- Mi Familia Vota
- California League of Conservation Voters
- Central California Environmental Justice Network
- Fossil Free California
- 350 Ventura County Climate Hub
- Citizens Climate Lobby Ventura
- 350 South Bay Los Angeles
- California Environmental Justice Alliance
- 350 Conejo / San Fernando Valley
- Environmental Working Group
- SoCal 350 Climate Action
- Sunflower Alliance
- Climate First: Replacing Oil & Gas (CFROG)
- California Interfaith Power & Light
- Coalition for Clean Air
- Environment California
- Communities for a Better Environment
- 350 Bay Area Action
- Mothers Out Front
- San Diego 350
- Heal the Bay
- Glendale Environmental Coalition
- Natural Resources Defense Counsel (NRDC)
- Sierra Club California
- Rootskeeper
- Conejo Climate Coalition
- Indivisible California Green Team
- Rooted in Resistance (Indivisible)
- Indivisible Ventura
- Normal Heights Indivisible
- The Climate Center
- Los Padres ForestWatch
- Stand.earth
- Sunrise Movement LA
- National Parks Conservation Association
- Greenpeace USA
- Santa Barbara County Action Network (SBCAN)
- Save Our Shores
- UPSTREAM
- Plastic Pollution Coalition
- The 5 Gyres Institute
- Seventh Generation Advisors
- Northern California Recycling Association
- The Center for Oceanic Awareness, Research, and Education (COARE)
- Sunrise Kern
- STAND-LA
- Redeemer Community Partnership
- Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE)
- Holman United Methodist Church
- Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles
- Black Women for Wellness
- Social Eco Education
- Surfrider Foundation
- Leap Lab
- Food and Water Watch
- Pacoima Beautiful
- Azul
- Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
- Breast Cancer Prevention Partners
- Field 661
- Central Valley Air Quality Coalition
- Asian Pacific Environmental Network
- Center for Biological Diversity
- Faith in the Valley
- California Nurses Association
- Center for Environmental Health
- Citizens’ Climate Lobby West LA Chapter
- NextGen California
- Live From The Frontlines
- Community Environmental Council
- 350 Santa Barbara
- 1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations
- San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility (SF Bay PSR)
- 350 Humboldt
- Santa Barbara Women’s Political Committee
- Santa Barbara Standing Rock Coalition
- Sunrise Bay Area
- 350 Silicon Valley
- Clean Water Action
- Climate Action Santa Monica
- Committee for a Better Arvin
- Comite Progreso de Lamont
- Greenfield Walking Group
- Committee for a Better Shafter
- Delano Guardians
- Physicians for a National Health Program (PHNP-CA)
- Active San Gabriel Valley
- Religious Activism Center of Reform Judaism
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