Is California Up Next For An Oil And Gas Boom?

by Lauren Sommer, KQED Public Broadcasting

The Bureau of Land Management is auctioning off 18,000 acres of oil leases in California Wednesday. The state has one of the largest deposits of shale oil in the country. And it's attracting new attention because of the drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing – or fracking.

Broadcast Dates

• Morning Edition, December 12, 2012