{"id":8437,"date":"2025-10-17T14:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/8437\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:47:12","slug":"texas-oil-company-shouldnt-be-allowed-to-put-californias-environment-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/8437\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas oil company shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to put California&#8217;s environment at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To the editor: Given the existential scale of oil-industry-caused climate change, Texas-based Sable Offshore Corp. should not be allowed to drill in waters off California\u2019s coast (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-10-13\/legal-troubles-mount-california-offshore-oil\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cHow grand plans to restart oil drilling off Santa Barbara\u2019s coast hit California\u2019s green wall,\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u201cHow grand plans to restart oil drilling off Santa Barbara\u2019s coast hit California\u2019s green wall,\u201d<\/a> Oct. 13). The Golden State\u2019s environment and economy should not be put at risk in order to enrich Lone Star State investors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">California has America\u2019s largest ocean economy, estimated at <a href=\"https:\/\/opc.ca.gov\/sustainable-blue-economy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:$44 billion;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">$44 billion<\/a>. The largest components of this economy are tourism, recreation and commercial and recreational fishing, with aquaculture and renewable energy generation becoming increasingly important. Oil spills have caused California major problems for more than 50 years and are a constant menace to the environmental treasures of our coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Let\u2019s send Sable back to Houston with the message that California\u2019s world-class economy was not built on a fuel that imperils the global environment. If Texans want to invest in California\u2019s marine economy, they can put their money into our state\u2019s renewable energy enterprises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tom Osborne, Laguna Beach<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story originally appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/story\/2025-10-17\/sable-offshore-drilling-california\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: Given the existential scale of oil-industry-caused climate change, Texas-based Sable Offshore Corp. should not be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3267,8004,8005,6788,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-8437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-california","tag-oil-drilling","tag-refugio-state-beach","tag-sable-offshore-corp","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}