Bureau of Land Management opens public California land for oil and gas leasing

Fracking and drilling could be coming back to California. Environmental advocates say it could be devastating to wildlife and communities.

“These are some of the most iconic and beautiful places in California that could see new drilling,” Center for Biological Diversity Attorney Hollin Kretzmann said. “Drilling has a wide range of effects. It includes contaminating our water that we drink, contaminating the air that we breathe, and it has all kinds of effects on wildlife and the habitat that they need to survive.”

This comes after the Bureau of Land Management announced its approved plan to open nearly a million acres of public land to be leased to oil and gas…

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