A KQED report put a fresh spotlight on what California’s independent oil producers, refiners, and energy workers have been warning about for years

CIPA members received welcome news this week when Senator Scott Wiener’s SB 982, the latest iteration of the so-called “polluters pay” campaign, failed to advance out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

California’s energy policy failures drew national attention in Washington last week when Congressman August Pfluger of Texas used a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee hearing to press Energy Secretary Chris Wright on what he described as a looming energy crisis in California.

California’s fight over development near idle and abandoned oil wells is too often framed as if mere proximity equals danger.

For more than a year, CIPA has been making the case in Washington that California’s fossil energy policies are not merely misguided, not merely expensive, and not merely hostile to the state’s oil producers, but they threaten national security.