Experts say oil resources are limited in the Pacific Ocean and oil majors may not clamor for leases that could ensnare them ...

A Trump administration proposal to allow more exploration for oil and gas violates environmental laws, the groups said.

For a coastal California community, an oil spill has devastating and long-lasting consequences. These catastrophes kill off tourism and local economies, destroy marine life, and disrupt fisheries and ...

Any effort to re-open oil drilling off the California coast would be “dead on arrival,” Gov. Newsom said while attending a ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom, a chief critic of the president and an opponent of oil exploration in the Pacific, called the proposal ...

A draft five-year plan for offshore oil development proposes selling leases on the West Coast, Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.

The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the Republican's administration could announce plans as ...

The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to open the California coast to new oil and gas drilling for the first time ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. -- A major oil spill off the coast of Southern California has forced Huntington Beach and activities scheduled to take place in the region to shut down. A leak from an ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters investigating a reported petroleum stench at a California beach last month didn’t take long to find a spill — oil was spreading across the sand and into the surf.

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Evidence emerged Tuesday that a ship’s anchor snagged and dragged an underwater pipeline that ruptured and spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil off Southern ...