Tell Gov. Newsom & CalGEM to set a 2,500-foot buffer zone

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Tell Gov. Newsom & CalGEM to set a 2,500-foot buffer zone

Gov. Newsom has instructed the state entity that regulates oil and gas (CalGEM) to establish new rules to protect public health from the impacts of oil and gas extraction. The agency is soliciting public comments online and at virtual meetings over the next month.

What do we want? A 2,500-foot health and safety buffer zone between fossil-fuel infrastructure and homes, schools and other sensitive sites.

Every comment submitted here will be sent instantly to [email protected]. We are aiming to collect at least 10,000 signatures before the deadline on June 10.

Don't wait, submit your comment today and together we can protect all Californians and our climate.

To CA Geologic Energy Management Division:

For decades, California’s oil industry has been given a blank check to drill for health-threatening fossil fuels in the center of our communities, in our backyards, on school campuses and next to our parks. Over five million Californians living within a mile of an active oil well are exposed to carcinogenic chemicals, asthma attack-inducing emissions, and the threat of catastrophic accidents or explosions.

While California claims to be a leader on climate action, California’s Governor and state regulators allowed the oil industry to sacrifice entire communities—with disproportionate impacts concentrated in low-income communities of color.

Every day, frontline communities across California continue to be exposed to toxic chemicals and emissions from the oil wells and refineries next door. Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM) must establish rules to protect public health from the impacts of oil and gas extraction.

I urge Governor Newsom and CalGEM to phase out oil production in exposed communities by creating a 2,500-foot health-and-safety buffer zone between fossil-fuel infrastructure and homes, schools and other sensitive sites.

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Tell Gov. Newsom & CalGEM to set a 2,500-foot buffer zone

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