Senate Bill 1137 establishes a 3,200-foot minimum distance between new oil wells and homes, schools, hospitals, parks and ...

Two draft environmental analyses explore reopening large areas in coastal and interior California to oil and gas development.

The BLM has revived its effort to open more of California’s public lands to oil extraction. But its strategy has changed ...

The move comes after months of public warnings that the San Pablo Bay pipeline might close. California regulators on Friday ...

A new California law now in effect could significantly expand oil production in the Central Valley. Fresno County Supervisor ...

Listening to President Donald Trump speak on the U.S. military’s decapitation of the leadership in Venezuela, it is clear ...

California's oil and gas industry is being told, in increasingly blunt terms, that the status quo is over. Governor Gavin Newsom is pairing a high profile warning to refiners and producers with a ...

Thirty years ago, Willie Cruz was shocked when he learned the Southern California oil refinery where he worked was shutting down. Cruz, now a 61-year-old living in Arizona, had spent five years ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Blackmon is a Texas-based public policy analyst/consultant. California appears to be headed towards an energy crisis of its ...

It has been reported that the Trump administration is ready to allow drilling off the California coast. One has only to remember January 1969, when one of the worst environmental disasters in ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Thirty years ago, Willie Cruz was shocked when he learned the Southern California oil refinery where he worked was shutting down. Cruz, now a 61-year-old living in Arizona, had ...