On October 4, the Bureau of Land Management announced that it was ending a five-year moratorium on the selling of oil and gas drilling leases on public lands on California's Central Coast. The bureau will soon be seeking bids for drilling on 725,000 acres of land across 11 of California's most beautiful counties.
This is just the latest in a series of extraordinary efforts by the Trump administration to slap down California, the front line of states' resistance to Trumpism, and to use federal powers to dilute the state's environmental protections, arguably its proudest political achievement of recent decades.
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