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Ban Fracking
Fracking has come to California, and it's currently taking place without any regulation. Take Action: Help ban fracking. Learn more.
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Canal in CaliforniaWith your help, a wasteful $11.14 billion water bond was booted off the 2010 ballot in California – but it's back. Join the campaign to defeat a bond that would give corporate interests more control over California's water.
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This year, we are launching a dynamic campaign to rally Californians in support of a fair, sustainable food system that generates jobs and healthy communities. Congress will be taking up the next Farm Bill in 2012 and it’s up to us to demand more support for family farmers and healthy food. That means that Congress must take steps to end the stranglehold that large corporations have on our food system.

In addition to our Farm Bill work, our Bay Area staff is busy working with communities in places like Marin, Monterey, and Novato to keep California’s precious water resources in public hands.

Our Central Valley office is working to stop water pollution from industrial dairies while supporting sustainable, healthy food and farms throughout the Valley.

And in Los Angeles, we’re standing with communities that want sustainable long-term public water solutions, not expensive, privately-run desalination plants.

Join us by contacting the organizer in your area via our Western Region page.

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California, Here They Come: Now Is the Time to Ban Fracking

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Intensive new drilling and fracking has come to California.

Fracking an oil or gas well means injecting millions of gallons of fluid -- typically a mix of water, sand and chemicals -- at a pressure high enough to fracture underground rocks and release oil or gas.  The practice is leaving a legacy of air and water pollution in communities across the country, and contributing to global climate change.

Now, the oil and gas industry is targeting natural gas fields in the Sacramento Basin and oil fields in the San Joaquin, Santa Maria, Ventura and Los Angeles Basins. If industry succeeds, generations of Californians would pay the environmental and public health costs.

Sign the Petition to let the Governor and members of the California Legislature know that you want to Ban Fracking Now!

Learn more about fracking in California

Fracking has long been used in California to stimulate oil production, often to rework aging or damaged wells. But, in 2012, Zodiac Exploration Inc announced that they had used a new generation of fracking technology to drill a horizontal well 14,000 feet below King's County.

Read our issue brief on fracking in California to find out what these new developments mean for our state.

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