Editorial: Cleaning up California's oilfields may cost $21.5 billion. Taxpayers shouldn't get the bill

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% :California's Department of Conservation Geologic Energy Management Division, or CalGEM, said that it shares the concerns raised in Carbon Tracker's report, but that its data show more bond money has been set aside than stated in the report and that it has been making progress plugging idle wells using $100 million in new state funding.
47% : Oil companies caused this problem, but it's public officials' job to make sure they can't wash their hands of it and stick us with the bill.
36% : The California Independent Petroleum Assn., an industry trade group, criticized the Carbon Tracker report, saying it overestimated the costs by calculating what it would cost the state to plug wells, which is higher than what it costs the oil industry.

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