An oil company has proposed the first fracking project off the California coast in more than a decade. On Wednesday, California regulators recommended that the state object to the project due to concerns that it could increase the risk of spills.<\/p>\n
What happened: The California Coastal Commission published<\/a> two staff reports<\/a>, both of which recommended that the Commission object to a proposal from oil company DCOR, LLC to conduct hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, on 16 of its wells off the coast of Ventura County.<\/p>\n Why it matters: The recommendation turns up the heat in the Trump administration\u2019s ongoing conflict with California over offshore oil production<\/a> and how much power the state should have<\/a> to weigh in on federal decisions that impact its coast.<\/p>\n Context: In January, DCOR asked the Trump administration to greenlight a five-year fracking operation that it estimated could nearly quadruple the number of barrels of oil it produces each day on its 45-year-old platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An oil company has proposed the first fracking project off the California coast in more than a decade.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-417902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}