{"id":19475,"date":"2013-12-04T15:23:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T15:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=312972"},"modified":"2013-12-04T15:23:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T15:23:59","slug":"tell-gov-brown-and-doc-ban-fracking-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/tell-gov-brown-and-doc-ban-fracking-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Gov. Brown and DOC: Ban Fracking in California"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/banfrackcafi-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"banfrackcafi\"><\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_313002\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"303\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/news\/energy-news\/fracking-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"whatthefrack\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/whatthefrack.jpg\" width=\"303\" height=\"230\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2013\/11\/19\/celebrities-ask-what-the-frack\/\">Celebrities, including Hayden Panettiere, ask &#8220;What the Frack?&#8221;<\/a>[\/caption]\n<p>From the Sacramento Valley to Los Angeles County, fracking is quickly expanding across California,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2013\/09\/11\/flawed-fracking-bill-passes-california-assembly\/\" target=\"_blank\">polluting local air<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2013\/11\/07\/oil-and-gas-regulations-fail-to-protect-water\/\" target=\"_blank\">threatening local waterways<\/a>, accelerating <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/climate-change-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">climate change<\/a>, eroding property values and creating tremendous amounts of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2013\/11\/05\/fracking-expands-board-refuses-to-regulate-waste\/\" target=\"_blank\">toxic waste<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The California Department of Conservation (DOC) is accepting public comments on its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservation.ca.gov\/index\/Documents\/Text%20of%20Proposed%20Regulations%20-%20SB%204%20Well%20Stimulation%20Treatment%20Regulations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">proposed oil and gas regulations<\/a>. Now is the time to make your voice heard and call on California Gov. Brown and the DOC to place an immediate ban on <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/news\/energy-news\/fracking-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">fracking<\/a>.&nbsp;The 60-day public comment period ends Jan. 14, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on fracking in California, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiansagainstfracking.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Californians Against Fracking<\/a> website. For information on upcoming public hearings, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biologicaldiversity.org\/action\/events\/index.html#frackorfight\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Signing this petition sends the following comments to the DOC:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[emailpetition id=&#8221;10&#8243;]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,1,57],"tags":[2903,12199,2644,2906,10728,4748],"class_list":["post-19475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-leed-projects","category-green-building-posts","category-leed-news","tag-energy","tag-featured-news","tag-fracking","tag-news","tag-petition","tag-petitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}