Idled oil rigs off the California coast could be back up and running soon if the federal government has its way.

The Trump administration is threatening California’s future by proposing to open the state’s coastline to offshore oil ...

Community leaders and environmental groups in California are opposing a federal proposal for new offshore oil and gas ...

For Santa Barbara, the oil pipeline debate is not new. It comes with hard-earned lessons shaped by decades of oil development in the Santa Barbara Channel, a catastrophic spill in 2015, and repeated ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration’s proposal to dramatically ramp up offshore oil drilling could lead to 4,232 oil spills, dumping 12.1 million gallons of oil into ocean waters, according to an ...

Sable Offshore and environmental advocacy groups were in court Wednesday when the Houston-based energy company ...

California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, along with other state officials and environmental advocates, announced her opposition ...

Some residents, business owners and environmentalists questioned whether authorities reacted quickly enough to contain one of the largest oil spills in recent California history, caused by a suspected ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced on Thursday new oil drilling off the California and Florida coasts for the first time in decades, advancing a project that critics say could harm ...

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Southern California harbor patrol boats picked up reports of a possible fuel spill off the coast on a marine radio emergency channel about an hour before the Coast Guard heard anything about oil on ...