Resolutions and Recommendations
California Statewide Oil & Gas Regulations
In response to a letter from oil industry lobbyists, environmental organizations including the Sierra Club sent this letter to CalGEM as a follow up with a more detailed examination against the fossil fuel industry’s proposed regulatory rollbacks. April 27, 2020
Sierra Club California and dozens of allies sent this letter to Governor Newsom to urge his administration to do everything possible to protect public health and safety during this crisis, and to reject the efforts by the oil industry to exploit this emergency as an excuse to roll back regulatory oversight. April 14, 2020
A coalition of environmental organizations including the Sierra Club submitted this letter to California Natural Resources Agency, California Department of Conservation, and California Geologic Energy Management Division about the urgent need to resist rollbacks and move forward with oil and gas health and safety regulations. April 4, 2020
California (CalGEM) Public Health Rule & AB345
Sierra Club and our allies submitted this letter in support of VISION’s comments calling for 2500-ft setbacks on December 10, 2020
Sierra Club supports AB345, a bill that calls for consideration of a 2500-ft setback in the CalGEM Public Health Rule process. We sent this letter in with our allies on May 29, 2020.
CalGEM is developing a public health and safety rule around oil and gas wells. As part of their pre-rulemaking phase, Sierra Club submitted this letter as our scoping comments on May 15, 2020. Our allies at VISION submitted this letter on June 10, 2020 making the case for 2500-ft setbacks. Health experts submitted this letter on April 20, 2020.
California Statewide Oil Well Clean Up
Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity submitted this letter to Gov Newsom on the day that one of the oil giants filed for bankruptcy, to call on the administration to hold the oil industry accountable for paying to clean-up their polluting oil wells. July 16, 2020
With our allies, Sierra Club submitted a letter to the Newsom Administration and a letter to the Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery calling on CalGEM to remediate idle and orphan wells and recoup the costs from oil and gas
operators as required by law. June 23, 2020
CalEPA Carbon Neutrality Studies
California’s 2019 Budget Act (AB 74), appropriated $3 million in funding to the Secretary for Environmental Protection, to conduct two studies that examine pathways to reach a carbon neutral economy by 2045. Sierra Club and our allies have written multiple letters to CalEPA about these studies to provide our recommendations. Read Sierra Club’s recommendations from October 2019 and January 2020 and the Last Chance Alliance letter from July 2019.
LA County’s Baldwin Hills Community Standard District (Inglewood Oil Field)
California Air Resource Board (CARB) has selected the Baldwin Hills Inglewood Oil Field for their Study of Neighborhood Air near Pollution Sources (SNAPS). Sierra Club submitted this letter with recommendations for their site selection. May 31, 2020.
The Airport Marina Group & West Los Angeles Group of Sierra Club comments to LA County regarding the initial draft recommendations of the Baldwin Hills Community Standard District Periodic Review II (Inglewood Oil Field regulations). November 21, 2019
The Airport Marina Group & West Los Angeles Group of Sierra Club recommendations to LA County regarding the periodic review of the Baldwin Hills Community Standard District (Inglewood Oil Field regulations). May 8, 2019
28 organizations including the Sierra Club submitted these recommendations to LA County as part of the scoping period for the Baldwin Hills Community Standard District periodic review. May 31, 2019
Los Angeles County – Oil & Gas Regulations (Title 22 unincorporated areas)
38 Elected Officials from across LA County submitted this letter calling for strong regulations. December, 1, 2020
Sierra Club and over 80 allies submitted this letter calling for strong regulations. This technical letter was also submitted. October 14, 2020
Sierra Club, NRDC, Center for Biological Diversity, and STAND LA joinly submitted this comment letter to DRP and LA County Supervisors outlining our concerns with the draft Title 22 Oil Well Ordinance. May 28, 2020
LA County Supervisors were sent this letter as a follow up to the request for a robust public engagement process around the Oil Well Ordinance update. April 21, 2020
Sierra Club and allies sent this letter to LA County Department of Regional Planning about their plans to update Title 22 regarding the Oil Well Ordinance. April 8, 2020
Culver City – Oil and Gas regulations (Inglewood Oil Field)
The West Los Angeles Group of the Sierra Club adopted this resolution of support for the City of Culver City in their development and implementation of oil and gas regulations and associated Specific Plan land uses and conditions. July 9, 2017.
Ahead of the Council’s June 17th, 2021 vote to phase out and clean up oil wells in 5 years, Sierra Club along with a coalition of community orgs sent this letter to the council on June 15th, 2021.
City of Los Angeles – Oil and Gas (multiple oil fields)
This resolution in support of the City of Los Angeles’ consideration of a 2,500-foot human health and safety buffer passed unanimously by the Angeles Chapter Clean Break Team. August 27, 2017
