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Kern County, home to the state’s largest oil patch, has long been friendly to energy companies.

Longview is a small city in the east Texas oil patch; presumably its chamber was recruited because the plaintiffs figured that its presence would give them standing to sue in the federal district court in Tyler, which has two judges, both appointed by Donald Trump, including Barker.

Unfortunately, in 1983 Seafirst would be a casualty of Oil Patch banking failures, and the largest bank in the Northwest would be acquired by Bank of America.

McIsaac, whose husband works in the oil industry, said that the smoke this year, combined with a major wildfire in 2016, have made more people in town concerned about climate change, even if many residents get their paychecks from the nearby oil patch.

On the surface, this looks like another depressing deal in the Oil Patch that will only add to global warming, along with the other environmental damage from fracking — Pioneer’s specialty.