The L.A. County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously voted to repeal a 2023 law to phase out oil drilling in unincorporated communities over the next 20 years. Counterintuitively, the move is part of the ongoing effort to end reliance on fossil fuels.

The L.A. County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously voted <a href="https://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/supdocs/202718.pdf">to repeal a 2023 law</a> to phase out oil drilling in unincorporated communities over the next 20 years. Counterintuitively, the move is part of the ongoing effort to end reliance on fossil fuels.

News Reports for Alexa

Clips from this feed are automatically shared to the NPR One Omny program for ingestion by the NPR One API.

Clips from this feed are automatically shared to the NPR One Omny program for ingestion by the NPR One API.

News Reports for NPR One

Alexa feed for LAist/KPCC. Automatically aggregates from other programs in Omny Studio.

Alexa feed for LAist/KPCC. Automatically aggregates from other programs in Omny Studio.

LAist on Alexa Feed

This playlist is used to feed content to NPR One via API. It ingests content from other programs in Omny,

This playlist is used to feed content to NPR One via API. It ingests content from other programs in Omny,

NPR One Feed

News Reports

Why LA County had to repeal its oil drilling phaseout in order to phase out oil drilling 

Students who started high school wearing face masks and testing for COVID-19 graduate in the midst of widespread immigration raids.

Students who started high school wearing face masks and testing for COVID-19 graduate in the midst of widespread immigration raids.

At LA graduations, some families risk ICE detention to shower students with gifts and hugs

Residents are seeing trucks with Army Corps of Engineers markings far from any sites where fire debris is allowed to go. Here’s what we figured out. 

 

Residents are seeing trucks with Army Corps of Engineers markings far from any sites where fire debris is allowed to go. Here&rsquo;s what we figured out.&nbsp;
&nbsp;

A reader asked: Is fire debris being dumped  in my neighborhood? LAist investigated

LAist's been following the story of the June Bug tattoo studio. It's a woman-run collective of tattoo artists, the studio opened in Altadena to be a welcoming space for women, the queer community and people of color. Then the Eaton Fire happened, destroying half of Altadena, including June Bug. Since then, its artists have found themselves throwing their doors open to another group: Fire survivors. Host Josie Huang reports.

LAist's been following the story of the June Bug tattoo studio. It's&nbsp;a woman-run collective of tattoo artists, the studio opened in Altadena to be a welcoming space for women, the queer community and people of color.&nbsp;Then the Eaton Fire happened, destroying half of Altadena, including June Bug.&nbsp;Since then, its artists have found themselves throwing their doors open to another group: Fire survivors. Host Josie Huang reports.

Why LA County had to repeal its oil drilling phaseout in order to phase out oil drilling

In 1 playlist(s)

News Reports

Recent clips