FILE – In this July 24, 2019, file photo, a crew works on seepage of 800,000 gallons of oil and brine water oil from an abandoned well in Chevron Corp’s Cymric oilfield in McKittrick, Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has temporarily banned new oil wells in California if they use an extraction method that is linked to an ongoing oil spill in Kern County. On Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, the Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources announced it will not approve new oil wells that use high-pressure steam to soften the thick crude underground so it can flow more easily. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool, File)
