Gov. Newsom signs SB 1137, creating a 3,200 safety buffer zone between oil wells and thousands of homes, schools and hospitals.
Ashley Hernandez’s home is 400 feet from oil wells drilling in Wilmington on Thursday, September 8, 2022. Hernandez says SB 1137 which is now on Governor Newsom’s desk, would change lives by restricting oil well drilling near homes, businesses and other human uses in California., closely watched by communities in Southern California who live near the region’s extensive oil well fields.
The governor signed SB 1137 at a ceremony in Solano County where he also signed three other climate-related bills involving the state electric grid, carbon neutrality, and the capture and reuse of carbon emissions. More than 2.7 million Californians live within the 3,200 feet buffer zone in California, and 70% of them are people of color.
Kobi Naseck, of Voices in Solidarity Against Oil in Neighborhoods, recently told the Daily News, “We have the data and we have the science and we’re going to take action on that science to protect our people from the big oil.”
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