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California鈥檚 shift on drilling
Christa Case Bryant
For today鈥檚 cover story on President Donald Trump鈥檚 push for more oil production, it would have been natural to head to North Dakota, which sits atop the vast Bakken oil field, or to the Permian basin that spans Texas and New Mexico.
But reporting in California, as Simon Montlake did, allowed us to tell a different story: how the state鈥檚 efforts to mitigate climate change are colliding with the federal drive for more oil drilling 鈥� and what changes we can expect as a result.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a climate hawk who had called for the state to 鈥渕ove beyond oil,鈥� recently signed a bill to allow more oil and gas drilling in Kern County. 鈥淗e did a 180-degree turn in short order,鈥� says Dave Noerr, a mayor in the county.
