The State Lands Commission has finished abandoning two more legacy oil wells on the Summerland coast. These leaking wells in ...

Renowned actresses Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jane Fonda joined forces with hundreds of concerned citizens and environmentalists ...

April Charlton [email protected] Jul 18, 2017 Jul 18, 2017 Updated Sep 19, 2017 Well users in municipal areas of unincorporated parts of Santa Barbara County who are served by ...

Jan 31, 2024 Jan 31, 2024 Updated Mar 7, 2025 A permit to sink an exploratory oil well 11,000 feet below the surface in Cuyama Valley was approved Wednesday by the Santa Barbara County Planning ...

Apr 27, 2023 Apr 27, 2023 Updated Sep 26, 2023 A project to increase the number of safety valves along a currently unused oil pipeline ... split vote of the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission.

Two sides of the Santa Barbara County Administration Building told opposite stories on Tuesday, with environmental groups rallying against Sable Offshore’s plans to restart coastal oil pipelines and ...

Juliet is your community news reporter covering the South Coast of Santa Barbara County. More than 200 people showed up for the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday ...

As an environmental researcher at UC Santa Barbara, I find ways to reduce pollution and address climate change. The oil pipelines of the Santa Ynez Unit cannot be allowed to restart. Approval of a ...

ExxonMobil wants to restart offshore drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel ... Tell Santa Barbara County officials that we don’t want dirty offshore oil — not in trucks, not through pipelines, not on ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — A controversial oil project on California’s Central Coast remains unresolved after the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors deadlocked 2-2 on a vote regarding a ...

SACRAMENTO— Assemblymember Gregg Hart (D-Santa Barbara) introduced a bill today that would substantially increase oil companies’ requirements ... Dozens of idle wells in Kern County were discovered to ...