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Some Oil Well Permits On Hold After 'Crisis' Outside Bakersfield

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Gov. Gavin Newsom is briefed by Billy Lacobie of Chevron (right) and Jason Marshall (center), acting supervisor of the state Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR), in July while touring the Chevron oil field near Bakersfield, where a spill of at least 974,400 gallons of fluid flowed into a dry creekbed. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/Pool)

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