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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed a bill into law that requires candidates for president and governor to turn over their income tax returns for the five most recent taxable years — legislation that critics had decried as targeting President Donald Trump, who has refused to make his income tax records public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Senate passed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 27\u003c/a>, or the Presidential Tax Transparency and Accountability Act, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760778/trump-must-release-tax-returns-to-get-on-californias-primary-ballot-if-newsom-signs-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in mid-July\u003c/a>, a few days after the Assembly approved it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='2020-election' label='More Election Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are extraordinary times and states have a legal and moral duty to do everything in their power to ensure leaders seeking the highest offices meet minimal standards, and to restore public confidence. The disclosure required by this bill will shed light on conflicts of interest, self-dealing, or influence from domestic and foreign business interest,” Newsom said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom added that the U.S. Constitution gives states the “authority to determine how their electors are chosen, and California is well within its constitutional right to include this requirement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This law should be a national standard,” said Newsom, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Gavin-Newsom-reports-nearly-1-3-million-in-2016-12849486.php?psid=cgoUQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared six years of income tax returns\u003c/a> when he ran for governor in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation requires candidates to submit their returns at least 98 days before the presidential primary election to the Secretary of State, who then has five days to make redacted versions of the records available to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers have proposed similar bills in 17 other states in the 2019 statehouse legislative session. At least six of those bills have failed and others are still being considered, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A4966285e-1122-48b6-8568-895a26110dfd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Conference of State Legislatures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Gov. Gavin Newsom']‘These are extraordinary times and states have a legal and moral duty to do everything in their power to ensure leaders seeking the highest offices meet minimal standards, and to restore public confidence.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760778/trump-must-release-tax-returns-to-get-on-californias-primary-ballot-if-newsom-signs-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previously said\u003c/a> the legislation was a waste of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing in the federal regulations that say you must turn over your financial records to the government, to the IRS for review. What is being done here today is pre-empted by federal law,” said State Sen. Jeff Stone, a Republican from Temecula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to be nothing but a waste of taxpayer money. The president’s name will be on the ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But proponents, including the bill’s co-author, State Sen. Scott Wiener, have said the bill wasn’t about Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone assumed for decades that it was mandatory that you disclose your tax returns because every presidential candidate did it,” the San Francisco Democrat said before the Senate vote. “This is the least that we can do to know who it is we’re voting for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed similar legislation in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As Dave Noerr drove his truck through the Cymric Oil Field, sun gleamed on hundreds of oil-pumping units plunging into the ground and pulling back up again in slow motion. Workers drove white pickup trucks on private roads owned by the different petroleum companies operating here in California’s oil country, while large pipes snaking through the desert hills carried oil and water to processing facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in Kern County — an hour’s drive west of Bakersfield — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762863/as-chevron-gets-ready-to-appeal-state-order-kern-county-spill-continues-to-grow\">over 1 million\u003c/a> gallons of a mixture of oil and water have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760192/chevron-well-has-leaked-a-quarter-million-gallons-of-oil-in-central-valley-since-may\">seeped\u003c/a> from a well that Chevron says it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762422/chevron-says-attempt-to-seal-off-well-may-have-triggered-big-kern-county-oil-spill\">attempting to reseal\u003c/a>. The incident was first detected in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noerr, the mayor of nearby Taft and an oil man himself, pointed in the direction of the spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due north, all up in those valleys, it’s up in there,” Noerr said Tuesday, motioning toward a location hidden in a sea of oil machinery and sagebrush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Barry Koerner, McKittrick Elementary School superintendent']‘Even if the kids were here, it’s not something that we would be concerned about.’[/pullquote]Even though the oil spill is the largest in California since 1990, the site is accessible solely via a private road manned by a security guard. If you live or work nearby, chances are you can’t see the oil spill, you can’t smell it and oil is not in the water. Noerr is confident Chevron will keep it that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody spills anything, including hydrocarbons, on purpose,” Noerr said. “The largest group of people that understand the benefits, and yet also understand the potential negatives, are those people that live here and work in this industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763741\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11763741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Oil pumping units as seen from the basketball court at McKittrick Elementary School.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oil pumping units as seen from the basketball court at McKittrick Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Six miles down the road is McKittrick, population 115. The town has one school, a fire station, a small cluster of dusty houses and mobile homes, and several businesses — including a mini-mart and Mike and Annie’s McKittrick Hotel, Penny Bar and Cafe, the local lunch spot for oil workers at lunchtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Whitteker, a crane operator who has worked in the oil fields for 50 years, ate at Mike and Annie’s earlier this week as the other men in work boots, hats and collared shirts — most of them oil workers who live in Taft or Bakersfield — dug into their cheeseburgers and burritos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Brandon Edwards, who lives in McKittrick']‘It’s oil fields. They got spills out here all the time.’[/pullquote]“People are anti-oil, anti-oil companies,” Whitteker said. “I think it’s ridiculous because our world runs on oil. All the plastic in your car. The baggies you put your lunch in. Your shoes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the men having lunch said they had not heard about an oil spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabrina Ballou, who works at the diner, toasted bread and poured gravy over biscuits in the kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if she had heard about the oil spill, Ballou replied over the sizzle of hamburger meat on the grill: “I’ve heard about it, haven’t seen it. They’ve got it handled. It’s what they do around here. Nothing new for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They take it pretty serious around here,” said Ballou, whose husband drives a vacuum truck. “They try not to mess up the environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763742\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11763742\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Sabrina-Ballou-has-worked-at-Mike-Annies-McKittrick-Hotel-Penny-Bar-and-Cafe-for-ten-years.-Her-husband-works-in-the-oil-industry.-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sabrina Ballou has worked at Mike & Annie's McKittrick Hotel, Penny Bar and Cafe for ten years. Her husband works in the oil industry\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Sabrina-Ballou-has-worked-at-Mike-Annies-McKittrick-Hotel-Penny-Bar-and-Cafe-for-ten-years.-Her-husband-works-in-the-oil-industry.-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Sabrina-Ballou-has-worked-at-Mike-Annies-McKittrick-Hotel-Penny-Bar-and-Cafe-for-ten-years.-Her-husband-works-in-the-oil-industry.-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Sabrina-Ballou-has-worked-at-Mike-Annies-McKittrick-Hotel-Penny-Bar-and-Cafe-for-ten-years.-Her-husband-works-in-the-oil-industry.-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Sabrina-Ballou-has-worked-at-Mike-Annies-McKittrick-Hotel-Penny-Bar-and-Cafe-for-ten-years.-Her-husband-works-in-the-oil-industry.-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Sabrina-Ballou-has-worked-at-Mike-Annies-McKittrick-Hotel-Penny-Bar-and-Cafe-for-ten-years.-Her-husband-works-in-the-oil-industry.-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Ballou has worked at Mike & Annie’s McKittrick Hotel, Penny Bar and Cafe for 10 years. Her husband works in the oil industry. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘You Don’t Really Think a Lot About It’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil-pumping units and Chevron’s facilities can be seen from the playground at McKittrick Elementary School. The school’s logo displays a yellow cartoon oil tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if the kids were here, it’s not something that we would be concerned about,” said Barry Koerner, superintendent of McKittrick Elementary School, as he cleaned out his office in preparation for the new school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out here, you don’t really think a lot about it. A lot of people, I think, picture it like Hawaii with a magma flow,” Koerner said, chuckling. “And it’s not like that. It’s not like it’s going to come overtake the school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763761\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11763761\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_2Dave-Noerr-is-the-owner-of-Huddleson-Crane-Service-Inc.-in-Taft-and-the-mayor-of-that-town-qut-800x602.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Noerr is the owner of Huddleson Crane Service, Inc. in Taft and the mayor of that town.\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_2Dave-Noerr-is-the-owner-of-Huddleson-Crane-Service-Inc.-in-Taft-and-the-mayor-of-that-town-qut-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_2Dave-Noerr-is-the-owner-of-Huddleson-Crane-Service-Inc.-in-Taft-and-the-mayor-of-that-town-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_2Dave-Noerr-is-the-owner-of-Huddleson-Crane-Service-Inc.-in-Taft-and-the-mayor-of-that-town-qut-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_2Dave-Noerr-is-the-owner-of-Huddleson-Crane-Service-Inc.-in-Taft-and-the-mayor-of-that-town-qut-1200x904.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_2Dave-Noerr-is-the-owner-of-Huddleson-Crane-Service-Inc.-in-Taft-and-the-mayor-of-that-town-qut-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_2Dave-Noerr-is-the-owner-of-Huddleson-Crane-Service-Inc.-in-Taft-and-the-mayor-of-that-town-qut.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Noerr is the owner of Huddleston Crane Service Inc. in Taft and the mayor of that town. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Gov. Gavin Newsom traveled to McKittrick on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11763273/newsom-sees-progress-in-visit-to-chevron-oil-spill-site-emphasizes-need-for-accountability\">Wednesday\u003c/a> to see the cleanup, Koerner let the governor hold his press conference on school grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom called himself an environmentalist but said he doesn’t want to leave oil families behind as the state moves away from fossil fuels — noting he wanted to act “thoughtfully.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m passionate about low carbon green growth,” Newsom told reporters in the school’s library. “I want California to continue to lead internationally. I’m taking the baton from a very progressive governor, but I want to take further steps than the previous administration in this space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More on the Kern County Oil Spill\" tag=\"kern-county-oil-spill\"]Koerner guessed most locals didn’t know Newsom was in town until after he had left and the story of his appearance made the news. Koerner said he had not received official notice or information about the spill from the oil company and thought he might not be the only one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman representing Chevron and a number of state and local government agencies said McKittrick residents have not been contacted, but a website with information about the spill was launched. Chevron also reached out to local leaders, said another spokesman, who works for the oil company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless there’s a flyer (at the) post office or they have a relative that works out there in the cleanup, I’m going to guess they probably don’t even know about it,” Koerner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the spill might end up benefiting some families, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For some people it’s job security, ’cause they belong to a cleanup service. So now they’ve got a call that they’ve got to get out there and put in some overtime, make a little extra money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763743\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11763743\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"McKittrick resident and oil worker Randel Allen\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">McKittrick resident and oil worker Randel Allen. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Down the street from the school, oil worker Randel Allen and his cousin, Brandon Edwards, were working on a motorcycle outside the trailer where they live. Unlike others in McKittrick, they had heard about the spill — on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s oil fields,” said Edwards. “They got spills out here all the time. But I don’t even know how big it is, like visually, looking at it, so I can’t really say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if he was concerned, Edwards responded, “Not really. Look where we live. There’s oil fields and oil all around us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen expressed some worries and said Chevron should be able to clean up its mess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What if it was to (happen) right here in one of these ditches close to town? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Even though the oil spill is the largest in California since 1990, the site is accessible solely via a private road manned by a security guard. If you live or work nearby, chances are you can’t see the oil spill, you can’t smell it and oil is not in the water. Noerr is confident Chevron will keep it that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody spills anything, including hydrocarbons, on purpose,” Noerr said. “The largest group of people that understand the benefits, and yet also understand the potential negatives, are those people that live here and work in this industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763741\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11763741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Oil pumping units as seen from the basketball court at McKittrick Elementary School.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_Oil-pumping-units-as-seen-from-the-basketball-court-at-McKittrick-Elementary-School-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oil pumping units as seen from the basketball court at McKittrick Elementary School. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Six miles down the road is McKittrick, population 115. The town has one school, a fire station, a small cluster of dusty houses and mobile homes, and several businesses — including a mini-mart and Mike and Annie’s McKittrick Hotel, Penny Bar and Cafe, the local lunch spot for oil workers at lunchtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Whitteker, a crane operator who has worked in the oil fields for 50 years, ate at Mike and Annie’s earlier this week as the other men in work boots, hats and collared shirts — most of them oil workers who live in Taft or Bakersfield — dug into their cheeseburgers and burritos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“People are anti-oil, anti-oil companies,” Whitteker said. “I think it’s ridiculous because our world runs on oil. All the plastic in your car. The baggies you put your lunch in. Your shoes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the men having lunch said they had not heard about an oil spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sabrina Ballou, who works at the diner, toasted bread and poured gravy over biscuits in the kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if she had heard about the oil spill, Ballou replied over the sizzle of hamburger meat on the grill: “I’ve heard about it, haven’t seen it. They’ve got it handled. It’s what they do around here. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Koerner guessed most locals didn’t know Newsom was in town until after he had left and the story of his appearance made the news. Koerner said he had not received official notice or information about the spill from the oil company and thought he might not be the only one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman representing Chevron and a number of state and local government agencies said McKittrick residents have not been contacted, but a website with information about the spill was launched. Chevron also reached out to local leaders, said another spokesman, who works for the oil company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless there’s a flyer (at the) post office or they have a relative that works out there in the cleanup, I’m going to guess they probably don’t even know about it,” Koerner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the spill might end up benefiting some families, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For some people it’s job security, ’cause they belong to a cleanup service. So now they’ve got a call that they’ve got to get out there and put in some overtime, make a little extra money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763743\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11763743\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"McKittrick resident and oil worker Randel Allen\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07262019_McKittrick-resident-and-oil-worker-Randel-Allen-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">McKittrick resident and oil worker Randel Allen. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Down the street from the school, oil worker Randel Allen and his cousin, Brandon Edwards, were working on a motorcycle outside the trailer where they live. Unlike others in McKittrick, they had heard about the spill — on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s oil fields,” said Edwards. “They got spills out here all the time. But I don’t even know how big it is, like visually, looking at it, so I can’t really say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked if he was concerned, Edwards responded, “Not really. Look where we live. There’s oil fields and oil all around us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen expressed some worries and said Chevron should be able to clean up its mess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What if it was to (happen) right here in one of these ditches close to town? 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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly two weeks ago, the day after Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760751/newsom-fires-state-oil-agency-chief-amid-spike-in-fracking-approvals\">fired California's top oil and gas regulator\u003c/a>, the governor said he does not have the legal authority to impose a moratorium on permits for hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The governor of California cannot do that,\" Newsom told reporters on July 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Laura Friedman, chair of the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources\"]'I don't think it's our responsibility to be expanding oil production and well stimulation in California.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, two key lawmakers — the chairs of the state Senate and Assembly committees overseeing large parts of the oil industry — say they're open to giving Newsom the power to bring new fracking operations to a halt in California, setting up what could be a significant battle with the powerful oil industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that there would be support in the Legislature to provide him with that legal authority,\" said Assemblywoman Laura Friedman, D-Glendale, the chair of the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think it's our responsibility to be expanding oil production and well stimulation in California,\" Friedman added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm absolutely up for that partnership with this governor,\" said Henry Stern, D-Ventura, chairman of the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/general_information/Pages/HydraulicFracturing.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hydraulic fracturing\u003c/a> is an oil well stimulation method aimed at getting fuel out of the ground by using water and chemicals to crack open geological formations, allowing oil and water under the ground to flow more freely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"The Kern County Oil Spill\" tag=\"kern-county-oil-spill\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil industry says the technique helps provide the nation with a consistent source of domestic energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists say the chemicals used in the technique lead to air and water pollution and the potential contamination of drinking water. The work has also been blamed for causing earthquake activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The energy industry plans to increase its use of hydraulic fracturing, according to Deborah Sivas, a Stanford professor of environmental law who directs the school's Environmental Law Clinic and is a critic of the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's on the horizon that the oil companies want to increasingly use fracking in Southern California, where it's a technique that could potentially get more oil out of the ground. That's ramping up,\" said Sivas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To use the method, oil companies have to obtain permits from the state Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR), an agency that's been under increasing scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the division is overseeing the investigation and cleanup of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762863/as-chevron-gets-ready-to-appeal-state-order-kern-county-spill-continues-to-grow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of California's largest oil spills\u003c/a> in decades, the release of more than 1 million gallons of oil and water from a Chevron oil well site in Kern County, involving steam injection, a different method of oil extraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Newsom-at-Spill-Site-800x558.jpg\" alt=\"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) on Wednesday while touring the Chevron oil field near Bakersfield where a spill of at least 974,400 gallons of fluid have flowed into a dry creek bed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11763321\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Newsom-at-Spill-Site-800x558.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Newsom-at-Spill-Site-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Newsom-at-Spill-Site-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Newsom-at-Spill-Site-1200x838.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Newsom-at-Spill-Site.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">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), on Wednesday while touring the Chevron oil field near Bakersfield where a spill of at least 974,400 gallons of fluid have flowed into a dry creek bed. \u003ccite>(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/Pool)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago, the advocacy groups Consumer Watchdog and FracTracker Alliance released data showing that DOGGR had been issuing fracking permits at twice the rate this year compared to 2018. The groups also revealed that several agency employees owned stock in the companies they regulate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor then \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760751/newsom-fires-state-oil-agency-chief-amid-spike-in-fracking-approvals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ordered the firing of Ken Harris\u003c/a>, the head of DOGGR. Jason Marshall was appointed as acting supervisor of the division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom was asked about the change in leadership the following day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were conflicts that came to our attention. Those conflicts were real and very concerning,\" the governor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was then \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-oil-fracking-20190712-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked if he was imposing a moratorium on fracking\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't do that unilaterally. Legally you cannot,\" Newsom said. \"I have explored that during my transition,\" he said, adding that he has pushed for an overall transition from fossil fuel to more renewable sources of energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives of the governor's office did not return a request for comment on what led Newsom to come to that determination. A spokeswoman for the Department of Conservation, which oversees DOGGR, also did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor was asked about the issue again on Wednesday after he took a tour of the Chevron oil spill site in the area of the town of McKittrick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Legislature is going to need to make that determination. I certainly am inclined to investigate that and move in that direction,\" Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman said she's open to working with Newsom to make sure he has the authority to issue a moratorium on new fracking permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We look forward to having a clean economy, using renewable sources of fuel. We have to start setting ourselves seriously on the road to accomplishing that. If the governor thinks he needs the Legislature's help ... to make that vision happen, I stand willing and able to do that,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern said the governor may already have the authority to issue a moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's got a lot on his plate. Now this one has got to move to the top of the agenda. It's an urgent situation,\" said Stern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern was an aide to then-state Sen. 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