(Sacramento, Calif., April 23, 2021)鈥California Governor Gavin Newsom today directed the state Department of Conservation鈥檚 Geologic Energy Management (CalGEM) Division to stop issuing new permits for hydraulic fracturing 鈥 popularly known as fracking -- by January 2024. Newsom also ordered the California Air Resources Board to investigate how to phase out all oil extraction across the state by 2045.
鈥淭his is a move of seismic importance,鈥 said Juan Altamirano, deputy policy director for 约炮视频 California. 鈥淐alifornia鈥檚 size, economic importance and significant petroleum industry mean that this will reverberate around the world. This will accelerate our state鈥檚 journey towards net-zero emissions and make us a global example in slowing climate change. We need actions like the one announced today to combat the climate crisis we are living with. Nature, our animal species and our kids deserve a good future.鈥
约炮视频 California worked closely with the governor鈥檚 office on his executive order last year to set for habitat conservation, climate resiliency and access to nature for underserved communities by 2030. The organization is currently sponsoring two related bills in the California legislature -- (Kalra), which would establish access to nature as a basic human right under California law, and (Laird), which would offer incentives to California ranchers to adopt 鈥渞egenerative鈥 practices that protect bird habitat and encourage the growth of carbon-sequestering native plants.
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