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.

Santa Barbara County’s campaign against oil and natural gas production moved another step forward last week when the County Planning Commission voted 3-2 to advance Phase I of the County’s oil and gas prohibition ordinances.

Lawmakers from both parties and both houses decided that California’s climate policy cannot survive if Californians cannot afford to live under it.