Both Measure E and Measure D, a countywide temporary general sales tax and an initiative to strengthen coastline protections, respectively, are heading toward voter approval as of Friday afternoon.
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Lookout news and Community Voices opinion coverage of Trump administration plans to open waters off the California coast to oil drilling.
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A Lookout View: Yes on Measure D
Our ocean is our home in Santa Cruz County and we need to do all we can to protect it. Measure D takes a modest step in that direction by giving local communities a measure of control over decisions about our coast. The Lookout Editorial Board endorses it with a yes vote.
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Trump administration ratchets up its fight to get more oil flowing from California
The Trump administration’s latest salvo in its efforts to get more crude flowing through the Golden State is a federal review of California’s coastal management program, which is run largely by a state commission that has had a powerful role for decades in shaping development along the coast.
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Supervisors move forward with ballot measure strengthening offshore drilling ordinance
The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors is moving forward with a November ballot measure to make changes to an ordinance that requires voters to approve any onshore facility of over 20,000 square feet that supports offshore drilling operations.
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Save the Bay event targets Trump plan for offshore oil drilling
A town hall and concert event set for Sunday at Vets Hall in downtown Santa Cruz will bring local politicians, environmental activists and musicians together to oppose Donald Trump’s plans to drill for oil and mine for minerals off California’s coast.
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California sues Trump to keep oil pipeline on Santa Barbara coast shut
California is suing the Trump administration over an order to restart a long-shuttered offshore oil operation.
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Santa Barbara judge rules against company that turned to Trump for help restarting pipeline
A Santa Barbara judge tentatively ruled that the Trump administration’s intervention wasn’t enough to let Sable Offshore restart a pipeline shut after a 2015 oil spill.
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Letter to the editor: Our coast can’t afford offshore drilling
In a letter to the editor, Morganna Johnson of Surfrider Santa Cruz outlines how disastrous offshore oil drilling could be for Santa Cruz County and California’s Central Coast and urges readers to oppose the proposed expansion.
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Offshore oil threatens Santa Cruz County’s coastal economy — we must act now
Local business and fishing leaders Kristen Brown, Terrence Concannon and Melissa Mahoney warn that proposed offshore oil and gas leasing would endanger local tourism, fisheries and the region’s coastal identity. They urge the public to submit “negative nominations” to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management by Feb. 26 to protect federal waters off Central California from drilling.
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Santa Cruz County doubles down on opposition to federal offshore drilling plan
Santa Cruz County made its opposition to offshore drilling official, with a letter to the Interior Department and pleas to the public to get involved to stop the Trump administration’s move to drill off the coast of California.
