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Climate Activists Storm Gov. Newsom’s Office, Demanding Halt to Zombie Offshore Oil Pipeline [1]
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Date: 2025-07-22
Sacramento — Governor Gavin Newsom’s campaign to build the environmentally destructive Delta Tunnel and Sites Reservoir to enrich his Big Ag Donors and his role in overseeing the destruction of Central Valley salmon and Delta fish populations are not the only anti-environmental policies he has become notorious for.
Yesterday a dozen outraged climate justice activists descended on Governor Gavin Newsom's office, demanding that he stop caving to Big Oil and block a new offshore drilling pipeline and expanded onshore drilling in California.
“Last Friday, Texas oil company Sable moved one step closer to restarting the same corroded offshore drilling pipeline that caused the disastrous 2015 Refugio oil spill, after a Santa Barbara County Superior Court ruling,” according to the Oil and Gas Action Network.
“Thousands of advocates and nearly half of California’s Democratic Congressional delegation, have demanded that Newsom halt this disastrous pipeline. So far, he’s remained silent,” advocates noted.
Last Thursday, environmental justice groups leaked language of a trailer bill from the Newsom administration, calling it a “blank check to increase onshore drilling statewide with no environmental review.”
"Activists were at Newsom's office yesterday to make sure that our message is heard: Californians do not want another oil pipeline,” said Ilonka Zlatar with Oil and Gas Action Network, one of the organizers of the action. “His office has ignored letters from hundreds of organizations, dozens of state and federal representatives, and thousands of Californians who do not want to see the restart of a failed pipeline that caused the second largest oil spill in CA history.”
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