ENERGY - Can California’s Clean Energy Ambitions Survive the Shale Oil and Gas Surge?

California leaders are talking about energy abundance -- but they aren’t talking about solar and wind. State policymakers are considering the extraordinary economic opportunity in shale oil and gas. That's the first of California’s emerging trends, a discussion of how to exploit the potential bonanza in its Monterey shale, estimated to constitute 63 percent of all U.S. shale oil reserves, without sacrificing environmental standards. State leader ...

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