The Trump administration announced on Thursday new oil drilling off the California coast for the first time in decades, as President Donald Trump seeks to expand U.S. oil production.

According to the , the entirety of the California coastline has been off-limits to new oil and gas leases since 1994.

The administration’s plan proposes six offshore lease sales between 2027 and 2030.

“There are a lot of potential impacts from oil drilling. Obviously, the most severe that we’ve seen in other places is a spill,” said Benjamin Ruttenberg, professor and director at the Cal Poly Center for Coastal Marine Sciences.

Ruttenberg recalled the oil spill that happened at just ten years ago.

“That released a lot of oil into the environment. Those get on birds, birds get sick, sometimes they die. It g

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