Breaking: LA Times: Head of State Oil regulatory agency resigns amid lawsuit alleging conspiracy between regulators and oil industry

What will this mean for local governments like Ventura County who have been relying on reports from their staff showing the State Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal REsources has it all in hand. 

Head of California agency accused of favoring oil industry quits

BY JULIE CART


June 5, 2015, 2:50 p.m.
Mark Nechodom, the director of the California Department of Conservation, which oversees the embattled agency that regulates the state's oil and gas industry, resigned Thursday.

Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Nechodom to the post three years ago. He took over an agency that has generated significant controversy.

California's oil regulators, the Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources, have been facing scrutiny from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency after allowing oil producers to drill thousands of oilfield wastewater disposal wells into federally protected aquifers.


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Photo by Los Padres Forest Watch, the "punchbowl" trail near Thomas Aquinas College in Upper Ojai. On Thursday June 11 at 8:30 a.m. Ventura County board of Supervisors will hear an appeal filed trying to halt more wells from being added along this trail.