KEY STATE LAWMAKERS TO CALL FOR HEARINGS INTO CHEVRON OIL SPILL

State Senator Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, who sits on the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality, praised the governor for firing Harris.

"That is classic bad government to have the regulatory entity have financial involvement in the industry they're regulating," Skinner said. "We need to do more oversight and hold DOGGR to the expectation that I think all Californians have, which is protect our health and safety and stop this absurdity of allowing the oil industry to put us at risk."

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