The effort to shut down the city’s wells is part of a region-wide movement to push oil and gas drilling out of Los Angeles County. In 2021, similar measures were passed to ban drilling in Culver ...

Los Angeles has had always had a complicated relationship with oil. In 1892, what had been a small agricultural city popular with tourists from the Midwest, became a boomtown nearly overnight when ...

The ordinance will take effect in 30 days. Last month, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to ban new oil and gas drilling and agreed to phase out existing wells over the next 20 years.

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on Friday to ban drilling of new oil and gas wells and phase out existing ones over the next 20 years. The vote comes after more than a decade of ...

The 1,000-acre area southwest of downtown Los Angeles has approximately 820 unplugged wells, including 420 that are actively pumping. Roughly 80% of the operating wells are considered low ...

Los Angeles County has blocked new oil and gas drilling and will phase out of existing operations, expanding on a city-wide ban that was imposed last month. The county’s Board of Supervisors on ...

The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved a measure to ban new oil and gas wells and phase out existing ones. The council directed the city attorney to draft an ordinance to prohibit oil ...