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Environmental

Dec. 2, 2008

L.A. County Plan for Expanded Urban Oil Drilling Draws Fire

Environmentalists and community groups have filed three lawsuits against a county-approved plan to expand oil drilling in the heart of South Los Angeles.

By Peter B. Matuszak
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - Environmentalists and community groups have filed three lawsuits against a county-approved plan to expand oil drilling in the heart of South Los Angeles.

The county Board of Supervisors in October gave the go-ahead to Houston-based Plains Exploration & Production Co., the oil company that owns the rights to oil exploration in the Inglewood oil field, to add 600 new wells in the uni...

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