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Los Angeles City Council approves phaseout of oil drilling

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By DREW COSTLEY
AP Science Writer

The Los Angeles City Council has approved a measure to ban new oil and gas wells and phase out existing ones. The measure would shut down oil and gas fields in the city after a decade of complaints from residents about health problems — nosebleeds, wheezing, coughing — they blamed on air pollution from the sites. Activists say that Black and Latino residents of the city are the most affected by pollution from the sites.

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