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A coalition of environmental justice groups representing Latino and African-American neighborhoods in the lower-income areas of Los Angeles on Friday sued the city, alleging uneven treatment of various urban drilling sites (see Daily GPI, Aug. 18).

Sustained widespread heat last week, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, has driven up the electric generation power burn for natural gas along the Pacific Coast from Seattle to San Diego.

Sustained widespread heat last week, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, has driven up the electric generation power burn for natural gas along the Pacific Coast from Seattle to San Diego.

Residents and college students in a blue collar neighborhood just south of downtown Los Angeles and near the University of Southern California (USC) campus have targeted a well site in the Las Cienegas oilfield after operator Freeport-McMoRan began maintenance acidizing at the two-acre urban site.

Residents and college students in a blue collar neighborhood just south of downtown Los Angeles and near the University of Southern California (USC) campus have targeted a well site in the Las Cienegas oilfield after operator Freeport-McMoRan began maintenance acidizing at the two-acre urban site.

An oil spill Thursday morning on the Plains All American Pipeline in Los Angeles near the concrete-covered Los Angeles River, which long ago was turned into a regional flood control system, was contained before it could cause serious damage.

Los Angeles City Council at the end of February directed the city attorney to draft an ordinance banning well stimulation practices. It is reportedly aimed at hydraulic fracturing (fracking) but is cast more broadly than that, according to oil/natural gas industry sources.

Harkening back to its early 20th century roots as a world-class fossil fuel basin, Southern California is awash these days in fresh oil/natural gas drilling projects in areas that have long been surrounded by residential and commercial development.

A Canadian-based exploration/production (E&P) company founded five years ago put a chill on its bullish joint venture aimed at drilling on some of its extensive Monterey Shale acreage in California just as federal leasing policy in the state has been called into question for slowing development.