The Los Angeles City Council on Friday unanimously approved a ban on oil and gas drilling within the city limits, finalizing steps toward a ban that were first made at the beginning of the year. Council members approved 12-0 a resolution enacting an immediate ban on all new oil and drilling. The city will also decommission existing oil wells and operations within 20 years, according to a fact sheet. Before the vote, City Council President Paul Krekorian called the city's forthcoming ban a "watershed moment" for climate action. "Part of [the city's] economic growth was because of the oil and gas industry at the beginning of the Twentieth Century," Krekorian said. "But the result of
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