Key Facts

• The Trump administration is reviewing California’s coastal management program, which is managed by a state commission overseeing development along the coast.
• Officials want to weaken the California Coastal Commission’s power over projects involving federal agencies.
• Plans include issuing new offshore oil leases in California and Florida, where drilling had been limited or banned for years.
• The administration helped restart an old pipeline previously shut down after a major 2015 oil spill off California’s coast.
• Federal officials are moving toward allowing fracking on an old offshore platform near Ventura County, despite opposition from California regulators.
• California generates nearly half of its electricity from renewable energy sources like solar and wind, part of the state’s goal to reduce fossil fuel use.
• The state has sued the federal government over canceling an offshore wind lease meant to limit renewable energy expansion.
• California’s Coastal Commission, founded in 1972, has a history of regulating and sometimes blocking coastal development projects to protect the environment and public access.