Reports on Health Impacts & Setbacks from Oil Wells
Residential Proximity to Oil and Gas Development and Birth Outcomes in California: A Retrospective Cohort Study of 2006–2015 Births (News article) by University of California Environmental Health Perspectives (2020)
Oil and gas production and spontaneous preterm birth in the San Joaquin Valley, CA (News article)by Stanford University (2020)
Expert Testimony before Colorado Oil & Gas Commission Testimony on Need for setbacks (2020)
Oil and Gas Extraction in Los Angeles and Public Health Evidence by Healthcare Professionals (2019)
Human Health and Oil and Gas Development in the City of Los Angeles by Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers (PSE) for Healthy Energy (2019)
Feasibility of Amending Current City Land Use Codes in Connection with Health Impacts at Oil and Gas Wells and Drill Sites by LA City Petroleum Administrator (July 2019)
Public Health and Safety Risks of Oil and Gas Drilling in Los Angeles by LA County Department of Public Health (February 2018)
Danger Next Door: The Top 12 Air Toxics Used for Neighborhood Oil Drilling in Los Angeles by Center for Biological Diversity (2017)
Existing scientific literature on setback distances from oil and gas development sites by Nicole Wong MPH (2017)
Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking (Unconventional Gas and Oil Extraction) Seventh Edition (December 14, 2020)
Reports on Oil Well Remediation
Race to the Top: Internalising oil and gas retirement costs, Carbon Tracker (2021)
Green Stimulus for Oil and Gas Workers: Considering a Major Federal Effort to Plug Orphaned and Abandoned Wells, Columbia (2020)
Methane emissions from US low production oil and natural gas well sites , Nature (2022)
Plugging the Gaps in Inactive Well Policy: Summary of Key Findings, Resources for the Future (2016)
Idle and Orphan Gas Wells, State and Provincial Regulatory Strategies, Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (2021)
Reports on CA Oil Drilling
Oil and Gas Companies use a lot of Water to Extract oil in Drought-Stricken California by Fractracker (Nov 2021)
Polling: Californian’s Overwhelmingly Want Action on Oil Hazards, Just Transition by Change Research (202o)
Killer Crude: How California Produces some of the Dirtiest, Most Dangerous Oil in the World, by Center for Biological Diversity. (2021)
California Oil and Gas Waste Report: The failure to safely manage oil and gas waste by Earthworks (2021)
How limiting oil production could help California meet its climate goals by Stockholm Environment Institute (2018)
Oil Stain: How Crude Oil Undercuts California’s Climate Progress by Center for Biological Diversity (2017)
The Public Health Dimensions of Oil and Gas Development in California by PSE Healthy Energy (2017)
Fracking and Dangerous Drilling in California Briefing Book by Center for Biological Diversity (2017)
The Sky’s Limit: Why the Paris Climate Goals Require a Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production – Oil Change International (2016)
Still in the Pits: Oil and Gas Wastewater Disposal in California – Clean Water Action (2016)
Well Stimulation in California by California Council on Science and Technology (July 2015)
Drilling in California: Who’s at Risk? by Natural Resources Defense Council (2014)
The Environmental Risks and Oversight of Enhanced Oil Well Recovery in the United States by Clean Water Fund (2017)
Study of Neighborhood Air near Petroleum Sources by California Air Resources Board
Lifetime Emissions of Wells Approved Since 2019 Could Cause Nearly 100,000 Premature Deaths by 2100 by Center for Biological Diversity (2021)
Reports on Idle and Orphan Wells
Abandoned Oil and Gas Sites Are Leaking Methane Across the Country, Sierra Club (2021)
The Risk of Unplugged Wells for California’s Taxpayers: California Resources Corporation—A Case Study, Sierra Club (October 2020)
Billion Dollar Orphans: Why millions of oil and gas wells could become wards of the state, Carbon Tracker (October 2020)
The toxic legacy of old oil wells: California’s multibillion-dollar problem, LA Times (February 2020)
Orphan Wells in California, California Council on Science and Technology CCST, (January 2020)
Reports on Los Angeles Urban Oil Drilling
An Oil And Gas Setback in Los Angeles Would Not Create Billions in Liability (Legal Planet, 2019)
Urban Oil and Gas Production in LA County by University of Southern California Environmental Health Centers (2019)
Report by Sentinel Peak Resources about April 1, 2019 Spill at Inglewood Oil Field (April 2019)
Report by MRS Environmental Inc about November 22, 2018 Oil Spill at Inglewood Oil Field (April 2019)
Review of the city of Los Angeles Oil and Gas Drilling Sites by LA City Controller (June 2018)
Drilling Down: The Community Consequences of Expanded Oil Development in LA by Liberty Hill Foundation (2015)
Urban Crude: Oil Fields of the LA Basin by the Center for Land Use Interpretation (2010)
Oil and Gas Health Report, Los Angeles City (July 2019)
Reports on Oil Refineries
Decommissioning California Refiners: Climate and Health Paths in an Oil State by Greg Karras for Communities for a Better Environment (July 2020)
Reports on “Just Transition”
A Program for Economic Recovery and Clean Energy Transition in California, by Robert Pollin, Jeannette Wicks-Lim, Shouvik Chakraborty, Caitlin Kline, and Gregor Semieniuk (June 2021)
Putting California on the High Road: A Jobs and Climate Action Plan for 2030 by the UC Berkeley Labor Center (September, 2020)
A Roadmap to an Equitable Low Carbon Future: Four Pillars of a Just Transition by the Climate Equity Network (April 2019)
Just Transition/Transition to Justice: Power, Policy and Possibilities by USC Dornslife (June 2021)
From Banks and Tanks to Cooperation and Caring, Zine by Movement Generation. (In Spanish Here.)
