Orange County residents packed into a Monday night meeting to learn more about President Trump’s plan to reopen California’s coast for new oil drilling.
In November, the Trump administration announced that it intended to open up new drilling leases off the California coast for the first time since the mid-1980s. President Trump argued that the new leases will help lower energy costs, improve energy independence and give the economy a big boost.
Resident Margo Finlayson lived through a 1990 oil spill where 415,000 gallons of crude oil were spilled into the ocean, onto the beaches, devastating wildlife and traumatizing nearby communities…