Promoted as a win for environmentalists across the nation, President Joe Biden’s announcement that he will protect more than 625 million acres of federal waters from oil and gas drilling sounds like hypocrisy to some Central Coast residents. On Jan. 6, Biden enacted the protection through an executive order, which U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) said he first introduced as a bill in 2017 to end offshore oil and gas exploration in California…
Community members express mixed feelings about banning offshore oil drilling
