California Wants to Halt Oil Industry Exodus After Years of Climate Focus

A year after they broke up via text, California and Chevron finally reconnected by phone. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office made its first-ever call to Chevron’s refining chief last week, days before state lawmakers passed a bill meant to stop more oil companies from leaving California. Nathan Barankin, Newsom’s chief of staff, extolled the virtues of that bill, which could boost drilling in oil-rich Kern County, and touted the state’s decision to delay putting a cap on refiners’ profits.

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