California Senate Energy Committee

Technologies focused on harnessing energy from renewable sources, which the new center aims to advance.

Various techniques used to enhance the productivity of oil and gas wells, including hydraulic fracturing.

A controversial mining technique used to extract oil and natural gas from deep rock deposits by injecting a high-pressure mixture of water, sand, and chemicals underground.

California

Proposed legislation that would have temporarily suspended hydraulic fracturing and other well stimulation treatments in California pending scientific analysis of environmental and health effects, and would have mandated the California Natural Resources Agency to create fracking regulations.