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A great start for our new Assemblyman Bennett. #AB896 will authorize #CalGEM to impose a claim or lien on an idle well if the operator has failed to pay idle we...ll fees, if #CalGEM has identified the well as unsafe, or if the state has incurred costs for remediating the well. This will help motivate oil companies to obey the law and be accountable for cleaning up their mess. Today the bill passed (8-0) through the Assembly Natural Resources Committee. It will go to the Appropriations Committee before going to the Assembly floor and then the Senate. Should an oil operator file for bankruptcy, the bill’s lien authority would give #CalGEM heightened priority for repayment. The bill would also establish a unit to collect unpaid idle well fees. Environmental groups including @Sierra Club California NRDC Action Fund Environmental Defense Center and the Ventura County Board Of Supervisors support #AB896 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMeL2W4fm4E

We are honored to be joining Maricela Morales of CAUSE and Ventura County Supervisor Carmen Ramirez on this panel to discuss the hard work by many organizations, elected officials and members of our community to defeat the dirty Puente Power Plant the was proposed for the beach in Oxnard. Thank you to Fund for Santa Barbara for putting this together. We hope you will join us on March 9th. Register today: bit.ly/DEFEATINGPUENTE

HAPPENING TODAY: Please join us from 5:30-7:00PM for this year’s virtual Darcy Aston Memorial Water Lecture. This year’s keynote speaker will be Obi Kaufmann, an artist and author of best-selling California Field Atlas, focusing on the State’s most complex and controversial resource: WATER. Kauffman’s artful and analytical book is interspersed with full-color maps and argues that environmental conservation and restoration efforts are necessary not only for ethical reasons but also as a matter of human survival. Hosted by the UCSB Environmental Studies Program, this is the 6th in a series of annual lecture and community gatherings in memory of Darcy Aston, who was also a good friend of EDC. REGISTRATION & MORE INFO: http://bit.ly/darcyaston