The Trump administration’s plans to expand oil drilling across the state, including in parts of the Bay Area, are another step closer to moving forward after the federal Bureau of Land Management announced Monday that fracking would have “minimal” negative impacts on the environment.

With President Donald Trump’s efforts to reduce America’s reliance on oil imports by increasing drilling on U.S. soil, a renewed plan to boost oil production in California is back in motion.

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.