Court Opens Way for Oxy Drilling
In an apparent end to an 18-year legal and political struggle, the state Supreme Court today cleared the way for Occidental Petroleum Corp. to drill for oil on a two-acre ocean-front site in Pacific Palisades.
The justices, in a brief order, refused to hear challenges by residents and environmentalists to a ruling last November by a state Court of Appeal that upheld Los Angeles city ordinances authorizing the drilling. Opponents of the project said other efforts would be made to block the drilling--but they conceded their hopes were dim.
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