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Prohibiting Oil and Gas Extraction

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Example States and State Governments

Oregon’s Offshore Oil Drilling Ban

Oregon’s SB 256 (2019) repealed the sunset provision on the state’s offshore oil moratorium, effectively banning the practice permanently.
Example States and State Governments

Washington Fracking Ban

Washington became the fourth state to ban fracking with the passage of SB 5145 (2019).
Example Local Governments

LA Oil and Gas Well Ban

In January, 2022, the Los Angeles City Council voted to ban new oil and gas wells and phase out existing wells over a period of five years. The council declared oil wells “non-conforming” with the cit...
Example States and State Governments

Oregon’s Battle with Jordan Cove Energy Project

The Jordan Cove Energy Project seeks to build a liquified natural gas project off the Oregon coast. The Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development objected to Jordan Cove Energy Project’s ...
Model Law Congress

LPDD Model Law: Federal Fossil Fuels Leasing Reform Act

The U.S. Geological Survey determined in 2018 that fossil fuel production from the public lands and Outer Continental Shelf of the United States accounted for nearly 24 percent of U.S. contributions t...
Example States and State Governments

Colorado Fee on Oil and Gas to Fund Transit

Colorado’s SB 24-230 establishes a new fee on oil and gas production to fund increased transit service across the state. A production fee will be determined in consulting prevailing resources prices, ...
Resource Executive Branch

Report, A New Way Forward on Climate Change and Energy Development for Public Lands and Waters

Anticipating a change in Presidential Administration, this 2020 report from the Institute for Policy Integrity describes immediate and longer-term actions that Interior’s Bureau of Land Management and...
Example Local Governments

Los Angeles County Oil and Gas Well Ban

Following a similar measure in the City of Los Angeles, in January 2023, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors officially approved an ordinance to prohibit new oil and gas wells and phase out cu...
Example States and State Governments

New Hampshire Ban on Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling

New Hampshire’s SB 76 (2019) bans oil and gas drilling off the state’s 18-mile coast. The law also bans development of onshore oil and gas support facilities.
Example States and State Governments

New Jersey’s Offshore Oil Drilling Ban

New Jersey banned offshore oil drilling in 2018 with the “Shore Tourism and Ocean Protection from Offshore Oil and Gas Act.” Though New Jersey has no control over drilling in federal waters, by blocki...
Example States and State Governments

Virginia Offshore Drilling Ban

Virginia’s HB 706 (2020) prohibits the granting of a lease, easement, or permit on the beds of the coastal waters of the Commonwealth that would allow any infrastructure for conveying to shore oil or ...
Resource States and State Governments

Delaware River Basin Commission Fracking Ban

In February 2021, the Delaware River Basin Commission, citing threats to drinking water for 13 million people, voted to ban fracking in the 13,500-square mile region. Representatives of Delaware, New ...
Example States and State Governments

Maryland Fracking Ban

In 2017, Maryland became the first state with proven gas reserves to pass a law banning fracking.
Example States and State Governments

New York Fracking and Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling Bans

New York banned fracking in 2014, becoming the first state with large potential reserves to do so, effectively through a final environmental impact statement that recommended not establishing any frac...
Resource States and State Governments

Berkeley Report, Legal Grounds: Law and Policy Options to Facilitate a Phase-Out of Fossil Fuel Production in California

This April 2020 report from the Berkeley Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment presents legal and policy options for a phaseout of oil and gas production in California, including: Enhancing regu...
Resource Executive Branch

Report, Climate Reregulation in a Biden Administration

This August 2020 report from the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law charts a course for executive action that, under a new presidential administration, would reverse the deregulatory agenda of the Tr...
Example States and State Governments

Maine’s Offshore Oil Exploration Ban

Maine banned offshore oil exploration in 2019 through LD 955.
Example States and State Governments

Vermont Fracking Ban

Vermont banned fracking in 2012, the first state in the nation to do so.