It’s the Beginning of the End for Oil Drilling in Los Angeles February 10, 2022

Sierra Club

What the city council passed was not a ban on drilling oil but the initial steps toward a drilling ban, says Eric Romann, director of strategy and campaigns with Physicians for Social Responsibility, another STAND-LA coalition partner. “We don’t actually have a law on the books yet,” he says. […] But the LA City Council vote is still, Romann says, “an enormous breakthrough. And it’s certainly the most important moment in our long campaign to end oil drilling in Los Angeles.”

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