had not approved any of them since July. On November 19, 2019, Governor Newsom halted the approval of hundreds of fracking permits through the Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources Division pending independent review by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, with auditing of the process by the California Department of Finance. Newsom also temporarily banned new wells that used a drilling method linked to a recent large Chevron spill in the Central Valley. The new halted method included using high-pressure steam to extract oil from underground, which made it different from fracking. Moratorium end by Trump administration After the plan was proposed in April 2019, in early October 2019, the Trump administration announced it would end "a five-year moratorium on leases" in California, and that BLM would open up land in Central California for fracking. BLM was also announced to have approved the resource management plan for the area, meaning 14 prior leases in Monterey and San Benito counties, suspended by litigation from two conservation groups, would be issued. In December 2019, the Trump administration officially opened 1 million acres in California to fracking and drilling. Under the new policy, BLM proposed beginning new lease sales for oil and gas extraction along "California’s Central Valley and Central Coast, touching eight counties and [including] 400,000 acres of public land." Counties included Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare and Ventura. Several of the affected parcels overlap the Pacific Crest Trail. The proposal also includes areas close to Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Sequoia national parks, the latter within two miles. Critics argued that nearby fracking could damage the parks, with the government arguing that effects could be minimized. California officials and agencies, including California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, filed a lawsuit against BLM in January 2020, "challenging the agency on the grounds that environmental and public health impacts of the project were not adequately considered." The suit argued that BLM's plans increased the risk of pollution and earthquakes. Conservation groups also sued BLM that month. In early 2020, there is to be a proposal to "include parcels on more than 1 million acres in the Bakersfield area" for fracking permitting. Colorado Colorado has five types of local governments that are able to regulate fracking: home rule counties, statutory counties, home rule municipalities, statutory municipalities, and special districts. Some have narrower powers than others, yet all work in tandem to regulate