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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. The White House gets more

serious about California's oil and gas vulnerability and how it might impact national security,

ordering the resumption of operations at a project in federal waters off California's coast.

But is it taking seriously enough the national security threats in media world, namely from

TikTok? Welcome to Potomac Watch, the daily podcast of the Wall Street Journal's opinion pages.

I'm Kim Strassel, your host today. And joining me are two of my absolutely brilliant colleagues,

Bill McGern and Alicia Finley, to talk about how this war in Iran is exposing some interesting

weaknesses here on the home front. Let's start in California with the news. Energy Secretary

Chris Wright last Friday directed Sable offshore core to restart operations at an oil and gas

project in federal waters off the California coast, as well as a pipeline that carries crude

oil to onshore distribution networks. That pipeline hasn't operated since a spill in 2015, which is stranded this offshore production.

Alicia, tell us a little bit more about this project and why Chris Wright engaged in this order.

Well, this project has been ongoing for a few years, and the owner, SableCore, which

bought the platform and the pipeline from other operators because they figured this was stranded

oil and gas molecules because the state was refusing to permit the pipeline to reopen. So even

though the production, oil and gas production was occurring in federal offshore

waters, it still needs some state approvals to reopen the pipeline to connect to onshore

facilities that would connect to pipelines to distribute to refineries. Now, Chris Wright, the Energy

Secretary invoked the Defense Production Act on the grounds that California's

increasing dependence on foreign crude, to some of the large extent now and also refined fuels,

poses a national security risk. And the reason for that is that state now imports about

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