— has been a common practice for exploiting aging oil and gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico, where heavy offshore drilling is widespread and loosely regulated compared to California.
Back in California, environmentalists are hoping the Supreme Court’s decision to avoid questions over how regulators should review the environmental impacts of undersea fracking and acidizing is a step toward shutting down offshore drilling for good. “We hope this is the beginning of the end of drilling off California’s coast,” Monsell said on Monday.is widely read among people with lower incomes and among young people who are mired in debt. Our site is read at public libraries, among people without internet access of their own. People print out our articles and send them to family members in prison — we receive letters from behind bars regularly thanking us for our coverage.