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Citing research on how pollution from oil wells that leaks into the air, water and soil increases the risks that nearby residents might develop cancer, respiratory illnesses and birth defects, SB 556 would have given the more than 1 million Californians who live within 3,200 feet of active wells and who develop one of those health conditions the right to hold some oil drillers liable for up to $1 million. Sen.
Some readers cheered that news. Mary Emily Smiley, an attorney who lives in Lawndale, said there wouldn’t have been any way to definitively know whether such health conditions resulted from living near an oil well. “This sounds like another political hustle to convince people that they are victims and there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow,” she said.
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