The California Supreme Court has struck down a county's voter-approved ban on oil and gas drilling, ruling that state law largely reserves those decisions to regulators.
that Monterey County’s ban conflicts with a state law that gives California regulators oversight over what “methods and practices” can be used to extract fossil fuels.
Hollin Kretzmann, an attorney who defended the ballot initiative on behalf of the local advocacy group Protect Monterey County, said in a statement that county residents “now need to wait even longer for protections” that they already voted to enact. Monterey County’s administrative office declined to comment. The county did not participate in the Supreme Court appeal, but defended the ballot initiative in court previously.
The measure was opposed by Chevron and other fossil fuel industry companies, which challenged the initiative in court two days before it was scheduled to take effect in December 2016. The county then agreed to indefinitely suspend the measure from being implemented while the legal fight proceeded.
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