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More than 50 years since the oil spill near Santa Barbara, a look back at one of the worst ecological disasters in the ...

“The Trump administration announced on Thursday new oil drilling off the California and Florida coasts for the first time in ...

The Trump administration's plan to expand offshore drilling over more than 1.2 billion acres of ocean worries coastal ...

A new five-year offshore oil and gas leasing plan proposes 21 sales in Alaska, from the Gulf of Alaska to the High Arctic, ...

Environmental groups echoed that warning, with Dan Jacobson of Environment California saying, “The more we drill, the more we ...

It’s not often that the governors of California and Florida are on the same page, but this week they’re aligned in opposition to the White House’s latest plan to expand offshore oil drilling near both ...

Trump's oil leasing plan for Pacific waters ignites fierce backlash from California officials and environmentalists.

As the final round of a storm series closes in on Southern California, crews are racing to clean up an oil spill in Ventura ...

A unified command included the state's Office of Spill Prevention and Response, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the ...

The Trump administration is proposing new oil drilling off the California and Florida coasts for the first time in decades, ...

The plan has been met with strong opposition from California Gov. Gavin Newsom and is likely to draw bipartisan pushback in ...