Big Oil run amok in Kern County

Sacramento Bee: In California, we like to think of ourselves as being on clean energy’s cutting edge. We drive more electric vehicles, generate more electricity from solar power, and our legislators have pushed forward innovative policies that have become a model not just in the U.S., but around the world. Yet, hidden beneath this green image is a dirty secret: California is the third-largest oil-extracting state in the country, and the majority of that oil comes from where I call home, Kern County. Just two hours......

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