California Officials, Protesters Fight Offshore Drill Plans

SACRAMENTO (AP) – California commissions that oversee coastal lands and water pushed the Trump administration to leave the state out of plans to expand offshore drilling, warning the state would block the construction of pipelines to get oil back to land.
The agencies weighed in ahead of a public meeting Thursday in Sacramento, the only opportunity for people to register their opinions to the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in person in California.
Fishermen, environmentalists and o