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California Still Has No Plan to Phase Out Oil Refineries
The Golden State has the most ambitious climate goals in the country but can’t meet its targets, experts say, without making a plan to phase out harmful, climate-polluting oil refineries.
By Liza Gross
Gov. Gavin Newsom often touts California’s role as a global climate leader. Yet it’s hard to defend that claim as long as California remains one of the nation’s top oil-refining states, experts argued at a recent webinar calling for a phaseout of refineries.
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State of Play
While electric-powered vehicles may be the ride of the future, oil remains at least for now the dominant fuel for transportation around the world. And after a period of time at the end of the 20th century when oil was subject to wide fluctuations in price, new supplies in North America as a result of non-conventional recovery techniques have helped stabilize prices.