Nearly a million Californians have signed a petition to stop increased energy imports from foreign countries, according to a Dec. 12 release from the California Independent Petroleum Association, a nonprofit trade association representing hundreds of oil industrialists and gas producers.
The signatures gathered—roughly 978,000—are to place on the 2024 ballot a referendum on Senate Bill 1137, which was signed into law in September to restrict oil wells within 3,200 feet of homes, schools, and other locations, and also curtails the in-state production of oil.
