oil and gas

From the shores of Haskell’s beach in Goleta, you can see two rusty old piers in the distance being slowly demolished by heavy machinery.These are the last-standing offshore oil piers in the Santa Barbara Channel, although they won’t be standing for much longer.

Fracking has been a hot topic ever since the Trump administration released an environmental review about the possibility of expanding hydraulic fracturing…

Some Central Coast residents and environmental groups are alarmed over a current federal study, saying it could open up iconic local places like Morro…

More than 100 local elected officials across California sent a letter to Governor Jerry Brown this week calling for a statewide plan “to phase out oil and…

If you've been to the pump recently on the Central Coast, you've probably noticed higher-than-usual gas prices. For weeks, prices have been hovering…

Broadcast date: 2/1/2018The plan for new offshore drilling proposed off the California Coast by the Trump Administration -- said to be the largest…

The Trump Administration has announced a plan to open up California waters to offshore oil exploration and drilling. Intending to replace a current plan…

A legal settlement this week will make it harder for the Trump administration to open federally-owned public lands to oil and gas development,…

The energy company Venoco announced it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company told the California State Lands Commission it no longer has the…

This week the White House announced President Obama has removed large areas of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans from all future oil and gas exploration. But…