Fifteen years after Deepwater Horizon, some scientists and environmentalists worry the industry's new technology could bring ...

Industry favored | Work for jobless | Reverse course. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for Nov. 25, 2025.

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

Fifteen years after Deepwater Horizon, some scientists and environmentalists worry the industry’s new technology could bring ...

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

Environmental groups and legislators oppose the new offshore drilling plan of the Trump administration in the California ...

The Interior Department announced a second sale of 80 million acres of the Gulf, set for March. The sales stop at the Florida ...

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

Criminals around the world are increasingly mixing trade in illegal animal parts with trafficking of arms, humans, and ...

A third of the four men charged in the 2019 murder of a Santa Cruz tech entrepreneur has been found guilty. Kaleb Charters ...

The Trump administration has announced plans for six new offshore lease sales across the California coast, which local ...

New leasing and drilling “inevitably” means new oil spills, which has devastated Santa Barbara in the past, said Maggie Hall, ...