{"id":440788,"date":"2021-10-07T10:59:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T05:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=440788"},"modified":"2021-10-07T11:55:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T06:25:13","slug":"california-oil-spill-renews-calls-to-ban-offshore-drilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/california-oil-spill-renews-calls-to-ban-offshore-drilling\/","title":{"rendered":"California oil spill renews calls to ban offshore drilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California has been a leader in restricting offshore oil drilling since the infamous 1969 Santa Barbara spill that sparked the modern environmental movement, and the latest spill off Huntington Beach is prompting fresh calls for an end to such drilling.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s easier said than done, even in California. While the state hasn\u2019t issued a new lease in state water in five decades, drilling from existing platforms continues. Similarly, an effort in Congress that aims to halt new drilling in federal waters \u2014 more than 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) off the coast \u2014 wouldn\u2019t stop drilling that\u2019s already happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California has been a leader in restricting offshore oil drilling since the infamous 1969 Santa Barbara spill that sparked the modern environmental movement, and the latest spill off Huntington Beach is prompting fresh calls for an end to such drilling. That\u2019s easier said than done, even in California. While the state hasn\u2019t issued a new lease in state water in five decades, drilling from existing platforms continues. Similarly, an effort in Congress that aims to halt new drilling in federal waters \u2014 more than 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) off the coast \u2014 wouldn\u2019t stop drilling that\u2019s already happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}