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

SANTA BARBARA ... oil and gas operations at eight platforms and removing these platforms and their associated pipelines from the ocean. “We’re glad to see this announcement and hope it signals the end ...

Santa Barbara resident. Miller remembers the Refugio oil spill in 2015 when a pipeline, then owned by Plains All American, failed and spilled over 140,000 gallons of oil along the coast.

Oil and gas drilling at the Santa Ynez Unit has been shut down since June 2015 following a May 2015 oil spill from a corroded onshore pipeline that released about 450,000 gallons onto Santa Barbara’s ...

Douglas Kiker, a contestant on “American Idol” Season 18 who memorably moved series judge Katy Perry to tears with his ...

The pipeline along the Gaviota Coast ruptured and caused the May ... A graphic showing the restart approval process for the Santa Barbara County oil pipelines that have been idle since one ...

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 ...

A Texas oil company’s plan to restart oil production on the Gaviota Coast is under scrutiny from federal lawmakers. On Monday, ...

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

SANTA BARBARA, CA (September 2, 2022) – Late Saturday afternoon, one victim sustained injuries in a big-rig accident on Highway 154. The incident happened around 4:00 p.m., between Paradise Road ...

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 from the Gaviota Coast ... vote of the Santa Barbara County ...

Teenage filmmaker Sheena Rock’s documentary Titans — which will be featured this Saturday at the Santa Barbara International ... beauty and ecological benefits of Santa Barbara’s offshore oil rigs.