The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors initiated Tuesday its biggest crackdown on oil and gas operations since Southern California's petroleum boom in the early-1900s.
The board unanimously called for the creation of a "Strike Team" of health and planning officials to ensure safety at oil fields across the county's unincorporated areas, in light of the disastrous Aliso Canyon gas leak and public concerns about other hazardous industrial operations next door to dense neighborhoods.