Following a recent oil spill environmentalists are urging US regulators to suspend and cancel oil and gas leases in federal waters off the California coast.About three dozen environmental groups sent a petition to the US Department of the Interior on Wednesday, saying it has the authority to suspend and ultimately cancel the oil leases.Calls for the administration of US President Joe Biden to cancel extraction in the area came less than a month after an underwater pipeline transporting oil from offshore platforms to the California coast leaked 94,635 litres of crude into the ocean.
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