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Governor seeks Obama executive action

CALIFORNIA Governor Edmund Brown wants US president Barack Obama to use his powers and permanently ban offshore oil in the state before he leaves office next year, shutting off access to a vast oil and gas potential forever.

 Santa Barbara oil spill in 1969.

Santa Barbara oil spill in 1969.

California was an early location for drilling in the years after the Drake well in Pennsylvania, and the site of the first commercially successful well in the western states at Pico Canyon.   The offshore...

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